Matthew 9:13 (NKJV) 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
OK, so maybe you’ve made some mistakes. We all do. But it doesn’t mean we have to stay there. It doesn’t mean we are ruined for life.
So many times we get into situations or messes and we think that because we blew it, we are done. We just messed up our walk with God and It’s over.
Wrong!
Praise be to God, for He called the sinners to repentance!
You know the old saying “we made our bed, so now we have to sleep in it”? Well, repentance helps to get us out of that messy bed.
To repent means to acknowledge we are wrong and then change our ways. It means we acknowledge that we are sinners and we completely surrender ourselves and our situation over to Him, asking Him for forgiveness and for HELP to correct the situation and help to teach us now not to do it again. We all are sinners and we all need His forgiveness.
So know that when we mess up, we don’t have to sleep in that mess forever. We have to wake up, get up and get out of that bed! How do we do this? By making a change in our hearts, through repenting and asking for forgiveness.
God forgives us immediately, but learning how to change our ways and make good decisions takes a lifetime. Some things will come easy and some will be hard.
We have to learn how to allow God’s desires to be stronger in us than our own desires. We have to learn to listen and allow the Holy Spirit’s promptings to help us make the right decisions.
As we begin to change in our hearts, our love for God becomes stronger than our love for ourselves. Causing us to want to make the right decisions all the time.
Do we always get it right? No. Sometimes we will and sometimes we won’t, but we always keep trying.
Amen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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