Isaiah 30:15
This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength…”
Jesus often showed that the proper response to sin is repentance and yet in and of ourselves we have not the power to repent and the forgiveness we receive we do not earn ourselves.
"It is the glory of God that he can do all this without any injury to the person who is forgiven. It sometimes happens that if a man has offended you and you forgive him again and again, he may thereby become hardened in his sin; but the Lord’s sweet way of covering sin is one which always melts and changes the heart. Sin is never so heartily hated as when it is covered by the blood of Christ. No man does ever thoroughly loathe sin till he has seen it put away in Christ; but when he has seen Jesus put it way by his own griefs and death, then he really hates the sin that made the Redeemer mourn and nailed him to the tree. It is the glory of God that he can cover sin in such a fashion as this, so as not to injure the offender whom he forgives."- CH Spurgeon
It is the Holy Spirit that works in us, that captivates us and that changes us. Where we once were blackened by sin, with faces like that of death, ‘til Christ came and made us white with faces bright with life.
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