GOD SAYS REPENTING IS REFRESHING
Every day when I come home from work, I go out to the backyard and prune the big leaves off the sunflower stalks. It causes more flowers to bloom where the leaves get snipped off and lets more sun get to the other plants below. Repenting is a lot like pruning the big leaves off. Our lives blossom more, and the people around us get more of the Son.
Nobody who works with other people or is around other people a lot is without the need for repentance. Nobody is that good all the time. We need to take the opportunity to let go of daily errors and sins, getting them and their effects off us by telling the Lord we’re sorry. When we say we’re sorry, “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). It’s like we get to start over every day when we mess up. Tomorrow just may be the day we’re ALMOST perfect!
Acts 3:19 tells us repenting is refreshing: I think of how a Labrador comes running out of the lake and shakes all the water off. He’s clean and refreshed and ready to go again. That’s how God wants us to be every day—clean and fresh and ready to go again.
And repenting doesn’t have to be a long drawn out thing. If it’s from the heart, it can be as quick as that dog who just jumps out of the water and shakes it off. We need to jump out of the water every morning or every night and shake it off. “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19). God wants us to be free like Labrador and glorious like the sunflower. Let’s prune off the sins and errors quickly and often, and let every day be a new day to blossom and play in the refreshing of God.
Love, Carolyn
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