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Notes:
- Verse 10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
What is godly grief? Quoting my ESV study notes, "godly grief is the grief that comes from God, characterized by repentance, i.e. remorse caused by having lost God's approval and the consequent resolve to reverse one's conduct and live for God. Worldy grief is grief that comes from the world, i.e. a remorse brought about by being losing the world's approval, leads to resolve to regain that approval and produces death, or divine judgment."
I know that if I disappoint God by my actions, I feel grief. The Holy Spirit convicts me of my sin, and I fall humbly before God and ask His forgiveness. My heart truly seeks repentance-not just forgiveness.
Our aim is to please God in all that we do.
- Leanne 01-28-12
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Date: 01/28/2012 | By: Ralph
Godly sorrow
Date: 01/28/2012 | By: Ric
Often our sorrow isn't Godly, leading to repentance, because we are sorry about the consequences our sin caused us, not the broken relationship with our Lord. True repentance is turning from that sin, seeing it as God does, and focusing on Him to deliver us from it. God desires relationship, not perfection because He knows that perfection isn't possible this side of heaven.
Re: Godly sorrow
Date: 01/29/2012 | By: Pruning Me
I just heard a sermon recently- i think it was Craig Groeschel or Perry Noble, that talked exactly just that.. Now that I've heard it that way, I can think back to sin from the past that my so-called repentance wasn't sincere, I was just not liking the consequences of my actions. Good thing I now know what true repentance is!