According to 2 Cor. 7: 8-13 there is a worldly sorrow and a Godly sorrow. Only the Godly sorrow produces true repentance. Even though the Scriptures exhort us to repentance, it is necessarily God's gift. Only by the will and mercy of God are we able to understand and acknowledge the magnitude of our sin and thus exercise true repentance. Only in this way can God be glorified. And so, it should be our constant prayer that He would make us to understand our sin that put the Son on the cross.

From Death to Life

Reading in John 11 where Jesus brings Lazarus back to life. Lazarus had been dead four days and the narrative indicates that Jesus was in no hurry. This was to be a sign-miracle of the choosing of the Son of God. Sometimes, I feel like a Lazarus who needs a resurrection, a rising, from having been dead for several days or, as my friend John Bunyan would have termed it, in a "slough." I think I have had hundreds of resurrections and they have all been according to God's timing. His sovereignty becomes obvious.