Penitent

Penitent

O God
You have driven me into a corner
Where I cannot escape.
I come to you penitently
For today I've sinned grievously.
I have betrayed my highest ideas.
I have been false to my inner convictions.
I know I have broken your heart.
Thank you for dealing with me
In the privacy of Your personal Presence
For my sin as been against you alone.
Cleanse me,Lord.
Change me.
Sin is so hideous, so outrageous!
Renew me till I am spiritually contagious.
-Ruth Calkin

The word repentance means to turn from, to change ones mind. When we turn from ourselves and give it all to God, that is repentance. When the direction of our lives does a 180, that is repentance. When we seek a redirection in our lives in lifestyle and relationship with God, that's repentance. We see that when we sin, we sin against God and God alone and there is nothing we can do but fall at His feet and ask Him to change our lives, that is repentance. If there is something in your life that is separating you from God, repent from it and turn everything over to the Lord. Remember, with God it is all or nothing.
Acts 3:18-19 (New King James Version)18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
Have a Blessed day,
Dustin