2 Corinthians 7
10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads
to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
Sometimes, its hard to let go of our past.
Despite the change that took place in our life when we met Christ and grew in
our relationship with Him, we live with regrets about what we’ve done wrong.
Maybe it is sin you struggle with after meeting Christ that you are ashamed of.
Paul says in this passage that godly grief (or
sorrow for what you’ve done wrong) produces repentance that leads to salvation
(and forgiveness) without regret.
On the contrary, worldly grief produces death.
Although in both cases the person is sorry for
what they’ve done, one is a godly grief, and the other is worldly. God wants us
to be sorry for our mistakes so that we are drawn to Him in repentance for
forgiveness. So why are so many of us stuck in worldly grief? We go to God for
forgiveness but we fail to forgive ourselves…
This kind of sorrow leads to death according to
verse 10. We live in regret and are consumed by our mistakes and failures.
Instead of being free and forgiven in Christ, we wallow in our own
self-condemnation, focused on the past, and as a result, are useless in the
present.
Christ didn’t come to condemn. Yes, sometimes, we
just suck… we mess up. But that very fact should lead us right back to God,
realizing that we are completely incapable without Him.
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