(Arthur Pink, "An Honest Heart")
"Behold, I am vile!" Job 40:4
Sin is the Christian's heaviest burden--
and his greatest grief.
"We are lying if we say we have fellowship
with God--but go on living in darkness."
1 John 1:6
Repentance is not only
a sorrowing for sin--
but also a turning away from it;
the throwing down of the weapons
of our warfare against God.
If we truly love God, we will . . .
forsake our sins,
abandon our idols
and mortify our lusts.
An honest soul cannot do otherwise;
anything short of that would be hypocrisy.
The upright man is the one who
"fears God--
and turns away from evil." Job 1:8
"Stand in awe, and sin not:
commune with your own heart
upon your bed, and be still. Selah."
Psalm 4:4
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