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Repent and Amend Your Life
Sin, repentance, contrition, amendment. A cycle of our human-ness. We realize we made a huge mistake, we are sorry and stop what we are doing, we turn around, and we go the other way. Recognition and repentance are looking back at what we have done. (Dr. Gresham just talked about that.) Contrition and amendment are about moving forward! “You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.” Prov 28:13. And that is not just running back to God, but running away from anything that would keep us from God. It’s a decision and an act of will to be different. If you have real repentance and contrition, you will not act, or think, as you did before, and you will change your life; you will hate what you loved and you will love what you despised and avoided. Our confession should cause people to say of us: “How he/she has changed; he/she is not the same. A wonderful change has taken place!” A firm purpose of amendment implies more than a wish or desire; it implies determination. What means have we chosen to help us to avoid our sin? We can go regularly to Confession and yet never make the slightest effort to be less surly at home or more kind to someone at the office whom we dislike or of whom we are jealous. We must face our faults and do something practical about them. God will help us fight bravely and skillfully. Reform of life is difficult, but possible and necessary!
2025 Conference
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