Fear No Fear

“Then all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God so that we will not die, because we have added to all our sins by requesting a king for ourselves.”” (1 Samuel 12:19, LEB). We’re so sorry, right? I hear it from my kids regularly. Oh. Sorry. Hung head. Seconds later, they’re laughing and screaming and doing something else. They were sorry the VOICE came out. They were sorry the finger got pointed at them. That’s it. Another day it will be likely that I will say the same thing and get the same response. God must get so tired of it. Sorryness does not equal repentance. Repentance is what turns us back to God. It’s what makes our hearts ready to accept His point of view as the ONLY point of view – no matter what society, industry, family, our ourselves think and say. He has a unique perspective. The ONLY objective perspective. As THE source of EVERYTHING, only He can say how it is, should be used, or the morality involved in it. Only HE can see all the permutations of a thing. We need to be repentant, not sorry. Forgiveness comes after repentance and then it is gone. As if it never was. We retain the LESSON, but not the memory of the sin. How great is that? No emotional attachment to it. Nothing to drag us down. Pure freedom in His pure love. If we aren’t repentant, we rob ourselves of that cleansing breath. And who would want that, right? Pick up His point of view and mull it over. Let it work in your heart to produce repentance. Let go the shackles and be free of it all.