Repent or Repeat?
When people hear the word Repent they often wince, cringe, and roll their eyes. To many folks this word is offensive in that it implies an unnecessary need to grovel about how bad they are and make some emotional demonstration publicly about their faults and failures. Instead most people it’s natural to think that overall by nature they are a ‘Good Person’ and there is therefore No Need To Repent About Anything . On the contrary, the word ‘REPENT’ when translated from Greek is defined to literally mean TO CHANGE ONE’S MIND . But change your mind about WHAT? It means to change your mind about going the way that seems natural to you — the way which you have always gone — which is going away from God and continuing to REPEAT doing the same things you’ve always done over and over again. You see, the reverse of repentance is going in the direction by nature that you think you want to be. It may seem like you are going the right way, but it is to a place that LEADS to SELF, but AW...