The Grief

Today, Pastor Ryan striked me again with his sermon, that I wanna share with you all guys. He preached from 2 Cor 7:1-13 about worldy grief and godly grief.

Herewith a bit of the summary:

Worldly Grief: grief that produced because we cannot get something that world offers; grief because something we lost from the world: loosing the flattering word from the world, don't get love from other (family, friend)

Godly Grief: grief about loosing the treasure of knowing God, because the sin separates us from fellowship with God.

Worldly grief and Godly grief has different fruits:

(v. 10)
Worldly grief obviously produces death, but
Godly grief produces repentance without regret
The repentance that produce the change of Mind "I was wrong, God was right"
The repentance not only changes mind but also moves us to change - eagerness or desire to be clean. This repentance is without regret.

But beware of "deceiftul repentance" that produce regret :
* ungodly repentance, when we regret that bcoz of our sin, we cannot rebuke other sinners.
* ungodly repentace that bring to death, like Judas (Mat 27:1-5): this kind of regret also produce confession and change of mind, but the grief without hope, put someone to the hopeless feeling and produces death.

The True repentance should produce hope. David repentance for instance, David confessed his sin, but he also knew that God forgives, God has died for our sin - we have hope in GOD. The true repentance leads us to God, to the cross, to the forgiveness and salvation ! - NO REGRET.

You will not regret everything you do when you repent (even if you have to confess the sin to your family or other believer), but when God shines on you, He gives us salvation - the result through eternity... definetly NO REGRET !

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I admit that I experience both of griefs, but i think often I grief because of something that I can get from the world. I grief because I feel my family doesn't love me enuf, I grief while I don't get appropriate response from friends.
And mostly I feel that my repentance has not enough, I keep dragged by the sin, and the repentance can't move me to rise and win from sin.
Today, God told me His message... and I was really strucked; I wanna re-commit; and only by God's strength - teach me to repent in your way... godly grief... because I don't want to loose you, God, I don't want to loose the precious fellowship with You. Hold me dear God. Amen.