Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (Romans 2:4).
Repentance is widely misunderstood.
Some think of it as a time of deep sorrow for sin and long crying.
Sorrow and tears may be a part of repentance but one may shed buckets of tears and never have repented.
To repent is to make an about-face...Repentance is a change of direction…a change of mind about sin and about the Saviour.
Think of it yet another way … Repentance is when you realize you have been walking down that Broadway to destruction and you do an about face and go the other way to Salvation.
Many repent during difficult times or after experiencing some great loss, but others turn to Jesus Christ because He has been so good to them. “The goodness of God” leads them to repentance. Romans 2:4
We all need to know and accept that God has been good to us all.
It is high time you began to thank God for our present blessing.
Thank Him for your life.
Thank Him for your wife or husband.
Thank Him for your children, happy, buoyant, and bounding.
Thank Him for your health.
Thank Him for your home.
Praise Him for fresh, cool water, bubbling from the rock, leaping in the cascade, soaring in the mist, falling in the shower, dashing against the rock, and clapping its hands in the tempest.
Love Him for the grass that cushions the earth, and the clouds that curtain the sky, and the foliage that waves in the forest.
Thank Him for the Bible to read, and a cross to gaze upon, and a Saviour to deliver.”
Thank Him if you can give thought to all of God’s wondrous blessings.
Has God been good to you?
Isn’t it time you became serious about repentance?
