JMD Devotional 177 Joel 2:11b,12 Rushing Past Repentance
For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can endure it? Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].
It is emotionally uncomfortable to be broken, and it is hard to bear the spectacle of other people genuinely anguished over their sins; but this important process must not be rushed through. If we too quickly extinguish the cleansing fire in a convert with ‘grace’, a person is not apt to fully appreciate and comprehend what they have been saved from. Believe me, grace is great! But even diamonds come in dark velvet-lined cases for contrast. Easy ‘grace’ does an injustice to the enormous personal cost God bled out for our salvation. Give true repentance time to break up the hard ground of the heart so the Word that is subsequently planted can take root.
Dear God,
Repentance has not been a one-time deal for me; it has been more like pealing an onion, I keep finding shades of deceit and iniquity that need to be dealt with. May I never minimize Your holiness and perfect righteousness. Decree that I not be wise in my own eyes that I might fear You and turn away from evil. May I spend the proper season to mourn over my sins so that when it is over true joy over Your salvation and grace may shine brightly on my countenance.
Amen
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It is emotionally uncomfortable to be broken, and it is hard to bear the spectacle of other people genuinely anguished over their sins; but this important process must not be rushed through. If we too quickly extinguish the cleansing fire in a convert with ‘grace’, a person is not apt to fully appreciate and comprehend what they have been saved from. Believe me, grace is great! But even diamonds come in dark velvet-lined cases for contrast. Easy ‘grace’ does an injustice to the enormous personal cost God bled out for our salvation. Give true repentance time to break up the hard ground of the heart so the Word that is subsequently planted can take root.
Dear God,
Repentance has not been a one-time deal for me; it has been more like pealing an onion, I keep finding shades of deceit and iniquity that need to be dealt with. May I never minimize Your holiness and perfect righteousness. Decree that I not be wise in my own eyes that I might fear You and turn away from evil. May I spend the proper season to mourn over my sins so that when it is over true joy over Your salvation and grace may shine brightly on my countenance.
Amen
All (but*) quotes are from The Amplified Bible, published by
the Lockman Foundation. (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
*New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
**Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. (Eugene Peterson's easy-to-read, contemporary Scripture translation)
If you know of someone who would like to subscribe to
my daily devotional, please forward.
jamesdinsmore_32907@yahoo.com
Short, concise, thought-provoking.
More features:
http://SaintJamesPoetry.blogspot.com
http://recoverydevotional.blogspot.com/
http://jamesezadventures.blogspot.com/
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