Encountering the Goodness of God by Bill Johnson

Author:Bill Johnson [Johnson, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

DAY 47

IT ISN’T COMPLICATED

“REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.”

—MATTHEW 4:17

This word “repent” means “to change our way of thinking.” But it is much more than a mental exercise. It really is the deep sorrow for sin that enables a person to truly repent and change his mind or perspective on reality. Hebrews 6:1 clearly teaches that there are two sides to this action: “Repentance from dead works…faith toward God.”

Full repentance is from something toward something—from sin toward God. Many Christians repent enough to be forgiven but not enough to see the Kingdom. Their repentance doesn’t bring the Kingdom into view.

The same concept is taught with two different perspectives. One passage (Hebrews 6:1) says “toward God” and the other (Matthew 4:17) implies it’s “toward the Kingdom.” Luke captures the richness of both views when he writes: “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).

The point is the presence is the Kingdom. It really is that simple. It’s too easy to complicate the Christian life.

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PRAYER

Lord, wherever my thoughts do not look like Your thoughts, I want to change. Help me to see Your truth.

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