DAILY DEVOTION - 14 OCTOBER 2020

Good morning. Peace be with you all. Rejoice in the Lord always.

"Godly sorrow worketh repentance." 2 Corinthians 7:10.

Insight

Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Holy Spirit of God. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If you have one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it to you, for human nature's thorns never produced a single fig. "Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the spirit." John 3:6. True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye on sin and another on the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Jesus Christ and see our transgressions only, in the light of His love. True sorrow for sin is eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway.

Challenge

True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him. Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. May God bless and protect you all. In Jesus mighty name. Amen.