REPENTANCE-BLESSING
The glum,
sour faces of many Christians. They rather give the impression that, instead of
coming from the Father's joyful banquet, they have just come from the Sheriff
who has auctioned off their sins and now are sorry they can't get them back
again.
Scripture
considers repentance a path to liberation, not condemnation.
Edward T. Welch
Blame
in on the Brain? P&R Publishing, 1998, p. 123.
I do not know
when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of
the cross.
C.H. Spurgeon
When we deal
seriously with our sins, God will deal gently with us.
C.H. Spurgeon
Commentary, Psalm 51:2.
Repentance
that renews precious fellowship with our incomparably wonderful God ultimately
furthers our joy. Just as we cannot
enter into true repentance without sorrow for our guilt, we cannot emerge from
true repentance without joy for our release from shame.
Bryan Chapell
Holiness by Grace, Crossway Books.
p. 88.
The sin which
is not too great to be forsaken, is not too great to be forgiven.
Thomas Horton
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 111.
To provoke
you to be the death of your darling sins… consider, that the conquest and
effectual mortifying of one bosom sin, will yield a Christian more glorious
joy, comfort, and peace, than ever he hath found in the gratifying and
committing of all other sins. The
pleasure and sweetness that follows victory over sin is a thousand times beyond
that seeming sweetness that is in the gratifying of sin.
Thomas Brooks
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 281.
When a man’s
mouth is thus opened, God’s ears are never closed. When the penitent is talking
the Savior is listening.
W. Graham Scroggie
A Guide to the Psalms, Kregel, 1995, p. 265.