WHEN WE SHOW TRUE REPENTANCE: Devotion for Saturday November 26, 2016
Text: 2
Kings 22:14 – 20 Memory
verse: v19
When we read the word of God and it
pricks our heart, we should repent and ask God what we should do. This was the
case when Peter preached on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:37). If there is any
place to weep, it should be in the presence of God for He alone is the one that
can help us and not Man. Man may sympathize but can never give you the needed
help because he doesn’t have right over his affairs. Have you wept before man
and failed to receive what you asked for? Never mind, with Jesus, it is a
different case. He knows the necessities of our hearts, when we cry to Him; He
saves us (Ps. 34:18). Josiah heard the word of God and it grieved his heart (compare
Judges 10:15, 16). Godly sorrow leads to repentance (2 Cor. 7:10). How do you
react when you hear the word of God? Does it prick your heart (Acts 2:37 &
7:54)?
Unfortunately, we are in a time
where the word of God doesn’t touch the heart of many. The preachers are no
longer preaching the raw and undiluted word of God. They preach what the
congregation wants to hear. This is the reason we see people clapping hands
when the word of God is coming forth instead of mourning for their sins. Most
of us in this generation have hearts and consciences that have are dead.
As a leader in the home, office,
church, company, etc, how do you react to advice or correction? Does the action
of Josiah challenge you? No matter how hardened our hearts may be, it must
prick us when we hear the undiluted word of God (Heb 4:12). As you go to God
with broken and contrite heart, He will hear and avert that evil He intended
(Ps. 51:7). Josiah’s repentance saved him from dying in the war. Though he was
wounded in war according to the warnings of the book but he didn’t die there.
It would have been worse if not that he repented.
Food for
Thought: Mourning and weeping makes us
modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Prayer: Lord, grant me true repentance as I hear your
voice so I will not die in this battle for eternal life in Jesus name.
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