If we are wretched and sinful and desperately in need of a Savior and His forgiveness (Ro 3:23 Luke 5:32). . .
and our hearts are deceitful and desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9) . . .
and in need of submitting it to the authority and truth of the Bible. (Psalm 1 & 119:11) . . .
then when was the last time someone came to you in humility and repented for something—especially a “pretty sin?”
or better yet, when was the last time you went to someone outside of your home, acknowledged the area/thing that was not in submission to the Gospel and asked for their forgiveness? (James 5:16) . . .
then in the off chance that there is repentance, the forgiver does not say “I forgive you” but rather “it’s okay.” Okay, really? What’s okay about sin?
We train our children. Hopefully, we are teaching them how to own their sins, repent to others and to forgive wholeheartedly.
Are we letting that teaching seep into our own hearts?
Just a thought I have been mulling over when I think about God’s community & what a Biblical worldview holds in this area of life.
