Repentance must be a change of life, and it must be of attitude, it must be change of life, it must be a change of behavior. You are indeed meant to see the error of your way, day by day, confess your faults, your sins to God. Turn away from those things, not returning to repeat the same offenses, but giving up the same.
All are needy of true repentance that is turning from their own wickedness, desire and lust, and turning wholeheartedly unto God. Now this day God is calling all men everywhere to repent. When you refuse repentance, when you refuse to build in righteousness and the standard of His holiness, you are literally refusing Him.
Without the stronghold, the foundation of repentance, men are building in vain. The straight and narrow way is the way of humility repentance before God. That is, whereby men and women are kept in the repentant state.
If men will thoroughly repent their lives will change because they will no longer run to the same things that put them in the condition that they are in. When you are repenting, it is drawing you in closer to God, it is causing you to dwell in humility of mind and heart.
The Lord Jesus Christ began His public ministry with these words: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" Matthew 4:17
This was the message of the early Church," Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord." Acts 3:19
Full Repentance
The Bible emphasizes three aspects of repentance
Conviction: A change of mind
Contrition: A change of heart and
Conversion: A change of life
"God… now commands all men everywhere to Repent" Acts 17:30
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