Time to fire up the blog again, I have found a book that I
think is very good, a book that besides the Bible I can use as a daily
devotional. The book is Note to Self by Joe Thorn, so each day I will share the
scripture passage a expert from the book and a few of my own thoughts.
Scripture passage Psalm
100: 4-5
5 Finally, I confessed all my
sins to you
and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.”
And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.
and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.”
And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.
Section from the
book
As you consider your sins and
feel their weight, you decide to embrace the guilt and even heap it on. Then,
only after you have felt sufficiently bad about all that you have been and done
do you begin to feel better about it all. It’s as if amassing feelings of guilt
becomes a perverted kind of penance in which you pay for your transgression by
making yourself feel bad—as if your guilt is a means of getting clean
Simple thoughts
Many think that feeling bad
about something they did wrong is good. While you should feel bad for the wrong
you’ve done sometimes feeling bad is not enough. Often people get feeling bad
and repentance confused. They think that if they feel bad enough about what
they did, that will make it better. Feeling bad for what you did is like trying
to take a bath in mud. You may get wet but you won’t get clean. The only way to
get clean is to trust in Jesus and repent of your sins. Repentance is not
feeling bad, it is truly hating what you’ve done and turning around and walking
away from it and back towards Jesus. So don’t just feel bad about the sins you
commit, repent of them, hate them, and turn back to Jesus then experience what
it feels like to be clean. Kind of reminds me of 2 Peter 2:22
They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”
They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”
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