So put on clothes of mourning
And weep with broken hearts.
Why does the bard always advocate repentance? The Son of God has paid the penalty once and for all. Sin is done and dusted with. We are seated on the heavenly realms. Then why be so serious about sin?
True the cross has dealt with it all. But is it not the penalty that has been dealt with. The power of sin is still around us. Tempting us. And very often pulling us down. Though we are more than conquerors, we all often fall face flat. Because our flesh is weak. Our hands are soiled. Our hearts and minds are even dirtier.
Seeing our choices hurts God all the more. Being holy He hates sin. But it pains Him more when we deliberately choose sin over him. When we are inclined to sin even though we know we are redeemed.
The bard presses for repentance out of recognizing the pain I have caused God. When the bard sees the weeping heart of the eternal Father, seeing my rebellion, how can I not say, "Father forgive me."
Repentance is not a means of seeking forgiveness. It is a means of realising my flesh is still weak. It is a means of crying with the tears of God, acknowledging that I have hurt God yet again. And coming to the throne of grace. An unrepentant or a blinded heart cannot come to the Holy God because He abhors what we still love.
That's the human plight. Liking of things which God detests. Rom:7:18-19. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can't. I want to do what is good, but I don't. I don't want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway
We need healing. We need reinstation of the fellowship of God. So that He can transform us into His likeness. Sanctifucation is a process. And repentance is an integral part of it. Infact the rate limiting step.
Rom6:15
Well then, since God's grace has set us free from the law, does that mean that we can go on sinning? Of course not.
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