Your insight that "effective repentance entails fighting to believe Truth despite what you see" cuts to the marrow.
This is where most believers get stuck, treating repentance as merely stopping a behavior instead of replacing the lies underneath it by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Israelites stood at the edge of Canaan seeing giants, while Joshua and Caleb saw the same scene through the lens of God's promise.
Same reality, different truth.
John writes in his first letter that "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). But confession without transformation is just religious performance. You're pointing people past the confession booth and into the operating room where God spiritually performs surgery on our belief systems.
That's the repentance that doesn't just make us sorry but makes us grieve over our sin. Too often we become callused to the conviction.
Also, the phrase "move forward in victory" in your title matters deeply. Too many Christians live in a repentance loop, confessing the same sins on repeat because they never identified the lie fueling the behavior.
You're handing people a scriptural scalpel to help cut out the sin, not just a tissue for mere tears.
Jacob, well said repentance is a stepping stone not a stumbling block.
Love this! So liberating! “not constantly vacillating between good and bad, but between truth and lies about who you really are”
Your insight that "effective repentance entails fighting to believe Truth despite what you see" cuts to the marrow.
This is where most believers get stuck, treating repentance as merely stopping a behavior instead of replacing the lies underneath it by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Israelites stood at the edge of Canaan seeing giants, while Joshua and Caleb saw the same scene through the lens of God's promise.
Same reality, different truth.
John writes in his first letter that "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). But confession without transformation is just religious performance. You're pointing people past the confession booth and into the operating room where God spiritually performs surgery on our belief systems.
That's the repentance that doesn't just make us sorry but makes us grieve over our sin. Too often we become callused to the conviction.
Also, the phrase "move forward in victory" in your title matters deeply. Too many Christians live in a repentance loop, confessing the same sins on repeat because they never identified the lie fueling the behavior.
You're handing people a scriptural scalpel to help cut out the sin, not just a tissue for mere tears.
Well done!
>Curtis
Powerful!!