Too choice a flower to grow
in nature's garden!
(Charles Spurgeon)
"GODLY sorrow works repentance."
2 Corinthians 7:10
"That which is born of the flesh
is flesh!" (John3:6a)
in nature's garden!
(Charles Spurgeon)
"GODLY sorrow works repentance."
2 Corinthians 7:10
Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is
the work of the SPIRIT of GOD.
Repentance is too choice a flower
to grow in nature's garden.
Pearls grow naturally in oysters--
but penitence never shows itself in sinners,
unless divine grace works it in them. If you
have one particle of real hatred for sin--
then GOD must have given it you,
for human nature's thorns never
produced a single fig!
is flesh!" (John3:6a)
True repentance has a distinct
reference to the SAVIOR. When we
repent of sin, we must have one eye
upon sin, and another upon the cross.
It will be better still, if we fix both
our eyes upon CHRIST, and see our
transgressions only in the light of HIS love.
reference to the SAVIOR. When we
repent of sin, we must have one eye
upon sin, and another upon the cross.
It will be better still, if we fix both
our eyes upon CHRIST, and see our
transgressions only in the light of HIS love.
True sorrow for sin is eminently practical.
No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it.
Repentance makes us see the evil of sin,
not merely as a theory, but experimentally--
just as a burnt child dreads the fire!
We shall be as much afraid of sin,
as a man who has lately been stopped
and robbed is afraid of the thief upon
the highway. And we shall shun sin,
shun it in everything--
not in great things only, but
in little things, as men shun little
vipers as well as great ones.
No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it.
Repentance makes us see the evil of sin,
not merely as a theory, but experimentally--
just as a burnt child dreads the fire!
We shall be as much afraid of sin,
as a man who has lately been stopped
and robbed is afraid of the thief upon
the highway. And we shall shun sin,
shun it in everything--
not in great things only, but
in little things, as men shun little
vipers as well as great ones.
True mourning for sin will make us
very jealous over our tongue, lest we
should say a wrong word. We shall
also be very watchful over our daily
actions, lest in anything we offend.
very jealous over our tongue, lest we
should say a wrong word. We shall
also be very watchful over our daily
actions, lest in anything we offend.
Each night we shall close the day with
painful confessions of shortcomings--
and each morning awaken with anxious
prayers, that this day GOD would hold
us up, that we may not sin against HIM.
painful confessions of shortcomings--
and each morning awaken with anxious
prayers, that this day GOD would hold
us up, that we may not sin against HIM.
Sincere repentance is continual.
Believers repent until their dying day.
This sorrow for sin is not intermittent.
Every other sorrow yields to time--
but this dear sorrow grows with our growth.
It is so sweet a bitter, that we thank
GOD we are permitted to enjoy it
until we enter our eternal rest!
Believers repent until their dying day.
This sorrow for sin is not intermittent.
Every other sorrow yields to time--
but this dear sorrow grows with our growth.
It is so sweet a bitter, that we thank
GOD we are permitted to enjoy it
until we enter our eternal rest!
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