Nov 18.98: Light For The Day - "Repentance"

"Now change your mind and attitude to God and
turn to Him so He can cleanse away your sins
and send you wonderful times of refreshment
from the presence of the LORD."
-- Acts 3:19 (TLB)

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There is a certain amount of sorrow involved in
repentance that we don't see much of today. 
That word means moaning and even groaning. 
I don't mean that we have to have a great emotional
experience, but I do believe that we need some
tears of repentance. 

We need to be sorry for our sins, and to say,
"Oh, God, I have sinned against You, and I'm sorry."
I'm not and emotional person. I don't know why, but
I don't cry easily. But of the few times I have cried
in my life, some of them have been over sin that I
committed many years ago. 

The night I came to Christ, I didn't have any tears. 
But later I went home and I looked out my window at
the North Carolina sky and I cried over my sins. 
I said, "Oh, God, forgive me." And the most
wonderful peace swept over my soul. From that
moment on, I've known that my sins were forgiven.

-- Billy Graham (DbD)

Prayer:
There is sorrow in my soul when I remember how I
fail You, loving LORD. Forgive my frailties.

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"Seek the LORD while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts; 
let him return to the LORD, 
that he may have mercy on him,
and to our God, 
for he will abundantly pardon."

-- Isaiah 55:6,7 (RSV)