Repent

Below are articles from the following dictionary: King James Dictionary

Repent: To Change One’s Mind & Purpose; Regret.

All I knew when I repented of the life I had lived was regret. Changing my mind and adopting a new attitude came later.

Last came a change in purpose.

The secondary definition of repent is to “Turn Again”.

The process of repentance is a continual turning again, over and over again.

1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I am a sinner saved by grace. While I do not return to those old disgusting sins of my past, sin is still present and something I have to deal with over and over again. “Turn Again”

We have a bad habit of thinking that just because we are not the old disgusting sinner from our past and are changed that these “new sins” are not disgusting. We are comparing ourselves with ourselves and not to our Thrice Holy God.

2 Corinthians 10:12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

Comparing myself against what I was is that same mistake.

Numbers 14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 10:38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,”

John 14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

John 17:21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Jesus, penniless, no property, gave His mother to John and yet wrote the greatest last will and testament ever written.