When you find yourself on the wrong road, repentance allows you to make a U-turn and head back in the right direction. What a blessing. Now, repenting doesn\u2019t increase God\u2019s desire to be with you; it just increases your capacity to be with Him. Sometimes we think we need to repent because God is mad at us and needs time to cool off. Or we think of repenting as a way of punishing ourselves so that God will be less severe with us. That\u2019s not repentance, that\u2019s low self-esteem! Low self-esteem causes you to believe that you have so little worth that your response doesn\u2019t matter. With repentance, however, you understand that because you\u2019re worth so much to God, your response is important. <\/p>\n
Paul says, \u2018The kindness of God leads you to repentance.\u2019<\/i> When you love God, your greatest concern isn\u2019t that God will hurt you, but that your actions will hurt Him. When David murdered Uriah after having slept with his wife, he went a year without repenting. He had to force his mind not to think about it. What a miserable way to live. In his penitential prayer, he said, \u2018My sin is always before me.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a051:3\u00a0NIV) Then he cried, \u2018Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow\u2026 Create in me a pure heart, O God\u2026 Restore to me the joy ofYour salvation.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm 51:7, 10, 12\u00a0NIV) As a result, God forgave him and wiped his slate clean. God will do the same for you. You see, repentance isn\u2019t merely for God\u2019s benefit\u2014it\u2019s for yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you find yourself on the wrong road, repentance allows you to make a U-turn and head back in the right direction. What a blessing. Now, repenting doesn\u2019t increase God\u2019s desire to be with you; it just increases your capacity to be with Him. Sometimes we think we need to repent because God is mad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}