Daily Repentance.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:00 pm
My Father is a Pastor, and when ever you fight with a Pastor, you're usually the one who's wrong. And of course I was wrong, But where do I go from here?
So me and my Dad got into a fight recently, and not just a word fight, but a rough fist fight too, where we both got pretty beat up. This was a big deal for the both of us. We spent the day in Prayer, repenting, and eventually forgiving one another. So that is not the problem. we have already repented, and if anything, our relationship is better than before. Of course, I felt renewed and full of the spirit, then.
But come the next morning, what was there to keep me from sin? What was there to stop me from getting into another major problem? I felt too tired to trust God, and live by the spirit with what was going on, and so I relied on putting on a mask and changing only the way I act. And I'm not fooling anyone. They can see through my act, straight to my bad attitude.
People can't change themselves. They can only change their external behavior. Only God can truly bring change on the inside. And the change is Repentance, a total turn away from sin. But repentance is not a one time thing. It must happen daily, because so easily does our mind fall back into sin.
So I ask that you pray for me that I may repent daily, and seek repentance daily.
So me and my Dad got into a fight recently, and not just a word fight, but a rough fist fight too, where we both got pretty beat up. This was a big deal for the both of us. We spent the day in Prayer, repenting, and eventually forgiving one another. So that is not the problem. we have already repented, and if anything, our relationship is better than before. Of course, I felt renewed and full of the spirit, then.
But come the next morning, what was there to keep me from sin? What was there to stop me from getting into another major problem? I felt too tired to trust God, and live by the spirit with what was going on, and so I relied on putting on a mask and changing only the way I act. And I'm not fooling anyone. They can see through my act, straight to my bad attitude.
People can't change themselves. They can only change their external behavior. Only God can truly bring change on the inside. And the change is Repentance, a total turn away from sin. But repentance is not a one time thing. It must happen daily, because so easily does our mind fall back into sin.
So I ask that you pray for me that I may repent daily, and seek repentance daily.