What Does It Mean to Repent?

It means to first acknowledge our sin before God, then to make the decision to turn away from that sin. Scripture is clear that those who are saved will have the desire to obey God, and will try to put to death their sin nature.

While we will always have sin, In our Christian lives we will grow and mature, and sin less and less as we learn to crucify our sin nature and to live a life pleasing to God. It is possible to do this, and to reach a level of maturity in faith where we learn to commit  less sin.

How do we do this? There are two keys. The first is 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. This means not only our bad thoughts/temptation, but the thoughts we think of as good, our doctrines, our emotions, the words that others have spoken to us, and even the Word of God. It takes time to put this into practice, but He is the One who knows this new and living way, and only He can teach it to us. And we can only learn it from Him, for it is He who writes His law on our hearts.

The second part is praise and worship, which keeps the line of communication open between us and God. Our focus throughout the day should be on God, asking Him to guide us and praising Him quietly within, making music to Him in our hearts.

Jesus said seek first the Kingdom of God. He did not say that there was something we should seek second or third. We should seek Him in all things, whether in our relationships, in our job, in our recreation, or any other thing. Just keep in mind that this is all a growing process. In the natural world, we are not born knowing everything and able to do everything that an adult knows and does. We must learn it as we grow and mature. The same is true spiritually. Now maturity can come much faster spiritually than naturally if we pay attention and put God's kingdom as the goal of our lives, but it is still a process - one which will continue until the day we finally see Jesus face to face. And what a glorious day that will be!

Just like my brother likes to quote and live by 1 Corinthians 10:31 says So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 

I pray that you find your self a great and God blessed week! And that you find your self in the word of the Lord!