January 28, How to Repent.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1.J.1.9.

A vague, bad feeling that you are a crummy person is not the same as conviction for sin.

Feeling rotten is not the same as repentance.

This morning, I began to pray and felt unworthy to be talking to the creator of the universe.

It was a vague sense of unworthiness.

So I told him so.

Now what?

Nothing changed until I began to get specific about my sins.

Crummy feelings can be useful if they lead to conviction for specific sins,

but vague feelings of being a bad person are not usually very helpful.

The fog of unworthiness needs to take shape into clear, dark pillars of disobedience.

Then you can point to them and repent and ask forgiveness and take aim with your gospel bazooka to blow them up.

So I began to call to mind the commands I frequently break.

These are the ones that came to mind. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Not 95%, but 100% Matthew 2237.

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Be as eager for things to go well for him as you are for

things to go well for you. Matthew 2239. Do all things without grumbling. No grumbling. Inside or outside.

Philippians 2.14. Cast all your anxieties on him. So you're not being weighed down by them anymore.

First Peter 5.7. Only say, so you're not being weighed down by them anymore.

1 Peter 5.7.

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