Excerpt from Boys to Men-Lessons for Life©/ Why do you say what you say do what you do?

Why do you say what you say do what you do?©

This chapter address's committing a crime or an injustice to someone else. We discuss the difference between Worldly sorrow (the I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar kind of sorrow) and Godly sorrow (true heart felt sorrow)

When you were arrested how did it make you feel?

Did you feel sorrow for what you did? Was it because you genuinely felt guilty for the crime you committed or was it remorse because you got caught?

Let’s think about this for a minute…

We can repent for a wrong that we have done, but if we are self-motivated and TRULY don’t feel the burden of sorrow in our heart for what we have done then the act of repentance it just that- AN ACT! OUCH!!  That hurts!

WORLDLY SORROW- will cause us to blame others and circumstances for the reason for why we committed the sin or we feel guilty simply because we got caught.

GODLY SORROW- Is when we accept and take ownership of the fact that we have done something wrong and TRULY feel the pain of that act deep in our hearts. We must then repent before God. (Asking HIM to forgive us) We then can live victoriously through grace overcoming the obstacle of SIN in our lives.

 It is only when we receive God’s grace that we can TRULY overcome Sin and walk in freedom from the bondage sin causes in our lives.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There is no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.

What brought you to the place where you committed a crime?

What compelled you to commit the crime?

Was it someone else’s fault?