In order to repent, to turn around, we need to be willing to do a couple different things. First, we need to be willing to confess our sin and ask God to change our heart. But we also must be willing to surrender that which was keeping us from God in the first place.
Take Jonah for example. Jonah, in the second chapter of the book bearing the same name, has this profound moment of repentance, where we turns back to God, whom he had been running away from, and changes his ways. But he also had to surrender that which had him on the run in the first place - the desire for his own way, his own will, over and above God's.
Often I think we are pretty good about confessing our sin, but then we stop short of full repentance. We still hold tightly to thte things that kept us from God in the first place, and as a result we return to them again and again and again. We are all for the change of heart, but stop before the change in behavior.
What do you feel the need to repent of this week? And what does repentace look like for you?
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