A passage from Charles Spurgeon, Sermon, “Repentance After Conversion”, 1887: Perhaps you have the notion that repentance is a thing that happens at the commencement of the spiritual life and has to be gotten through as one undergoes a certain operation — and that is an end of it. If so, you are greatly mistaken! Repentance lives as long as faith. We shall need to believe and to repent as long as we live! Perhaps, also, you have the idea that repentance is a bitter thing. It is sometimes bitter… But this is a sweet bitterness which attends faith as long as we live — and becomes a source of tender joy… I want you to indulge yourselves in this most rare and exquisite delight of sorrow at the feet of Jesus — not sorrow for unpardoned sin, but sorrow for pardoned sin, sorrow for that which is done with, sorrow for that which is forgiven, sorrow for that which will never condemn you — for it was laid on Christ long ago and is put away forever! It is this sweet sorrow that I want you to indulge.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:25:03 +0000
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