As Christians, we should be moving toward maturity in our walk with God through repentance.
Maybe you’ve lied, or done the wrong thing.
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I knew I had lied to my parents and watched a movie that wasn’t good for me to see. I didn’t listen to them, and instead snuck into the theater with a friend to see it, telling my parents I was seeing a different movie. I remember a time when my parents asked me to not watch a certain movie. You’ll experience more joy and freedom as you let God change you daily. But be sensitive to the leading and begin to make steps to change. It might be honoring a parent, stopping lying, or something else. So today, challenge yourself to practice repentance in any area the Holy Spirit is leading you. It’s humbling yourself and allowing God to be the boss of your life. It’s seeing something the Bible or the Holy Spirit reveals to you and changing your course. Slowly, through the course of time, I allowed what the Bible said to dominate my actions. I wasn’t perfect, but I began to stop talking bad about her. I changed my behavior and attitude toward my mom. Instead, I simply had to choose to honor her and treat her with respect because she was my mom. I realized that I didn’t have to like my mom or agree with her decisions to honor her. Then the Holy Spirit began to reveal to me that I wasn’t honoring my mom.
I was snarky, disobedient, and very unkind. Instead, I was talking bad about her behind her back. I realized one day that I was not honoring my mom the way the Bible described. So as God begins to show you things, you should begin to change. Our repentance should produce fruit in our lives. Produce fruit in keeping with repentance – Matthew 3:8 (NIV) It’s Jesus that helps us and empowers us to change. But as a result of our salvation, we should be wanting to change to be more like Jesus. There is not a thing we could do to ever earn our salvation. This isn’t to say that we’re doing good works to gain salvation. As Christians, we should want our lives to match up to what the Bible says. As we grow in our relationship with the Holy Spirit and the Bible, we will find things in the word of God that should challenge our lifestyle. We saw that as followers of Jesus, we should be repenting, which means a change of action and a change of thought. Yesterday we talked a little bit about repentance.
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