“True repentance is love weeping at the foot of the Cross” (Ronald Hanko, The Coming of Zion’s Redeemer, p. 369)
The Lost Art of Blushing
Shame is an essential element in true repentance. Thomas Watson says that, “blushing is the color of virtue. When the heart has been made black with sin, grace makes the face red with blushing: ‘I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face,’ Ezra 9:6).”
True repentance is always painful and sorrowful, but it is true. We need to recover the art of blushing in church life, private life, business life and cultural life.
Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance (Banner of Truth, p. 39)
Sight & Worship
Just let the eye see Christ – & we will repent & despise ourselves as Job (Job 42:5, 6)
Sin’s Power
We are often carried into sin & overcome by it because we love it. But we also often continue in it because we are afraid of the consequences that might occur should we repent & give full disclosure. Sin is powerful. Watch & Pray!
What Does Conversion Involve?
2 things:
a) the dying of the old man
b) the coming to life of the new man
This is by God’s Sovereign work alone through the saving instrumentality of the gift of grace & faith.
To die to self – is to be genuinely sorry for my sin, to hate it more and more & to run away from it.
To come to life – is to receive wholeheartedly with joy Christ Jesus, and to have a desire to do every kind of good work as God desires of me