Last Sunday we were challenged with a powerful message about revival. We heard that revival begins with repentance and obedience. Here is a powerful poem about what repentance is and is not:
Repentance doesn’t mean going through life with
your head down, feeling remorseful for being so bad. It means start doing
something good. Start practicing what you believe in.
Repent means start doing the things that you
know you should do. If you are alienated from somebody, be reconciled.
If you are self-righteous in relation to
others, humble yourself.
If you have been uncaring toward the poor,
now is the time to get some moral imagination and put yourself in the plight of
another human being.
If you have been callous about prospects for
peace in the world, now is the time for you to start praying and begin working
for those things in your own neighborhood that make for peace.
If you have put your trust in the
accumulation of things so that you are slave to a whole host of masters, now is
the time for you to unload some of the stuff and to put your trust in God.
And if you assumed to this point that you are
going to be judged on your ability to avoid evil in this life, this is the time
for you to hear that you are going to be judged on your courage to do the
good.
Repentance
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