Repentance

Repentance is the act of changing one’s mind. It produces a change in the way one lives and thinks. Repentance is brought on by godly sorrow that is brought on when one feels sorry for sinning against God and other people. True repentance is more than just one acknowledging they have done wrong. The desires to do wrong things should become very conflicting. God wants us to “hate evil” (Proverbs 8:13), especially the evil that a person comes to recognize in themselves. A person must want and ask God to change their heart. Just like King David asked God to change his heart believers should also ask God to create a clean heart and spirit within them (Psalm 51:10). It is important for a person to recognize that his or her sin originates in their thoughts and is often motivated by their pride, selfishness, anger, lust and greed. These are the sins that have become a part of everyone’s human nature because of the fallen world.


Repentance itself is the healing power of the soul. It is important to the healing process because one asks God to open their eyes to see him or herself as they really are. This allows them to be able to identify behavior and attitudes that the Scriptures define as sinful. Turning to God in prayer will give one the power to turn away from those sinful ways and replace them with the behavior that God has intended for His people.

Now you might be wondering why I posted this. Well...I had to write this for homework but it was also is a reminder to me and my recent challenge. I am slowly learning that I do not need to hide things and I realize that I tend to do this more than I can say. Last week, I was really struggling with my food addiction. Yes, I have a very lustful food addiction that goes far beyond food cravings. I found myself spinning out of control and as much as I tried to put on the brake I couldn't. I had to turn to a couple of good friends and share with them what was going on because I knew I needed more prayer than I could give myself. I knew that I needed to stop before I undid a year and half of hard work. If anyone has suffer from addiction, I feel your pain. It was so hard to admit my problem. Especially, when I have many people who tell me I am their inspiration. How can I be an inspiration? I struggle each and every day and try to make the right choices. Well we all have our sinful problems whether is it drugs, alcohol, food, lying...the list goes on. But God has the power to free us from them all we have to do is ask. As my friend said to me "those old tapes playing in your head have no bearing on your life now." She is right! Because it was nailed on the cross!!! I am happy to report that I have been back on plan for 5 days.