A Beautiful Coat

1 Thessalonians 4:7

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁷ God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.

Colossians 3:8

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁸ But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.

Colossians 3:8

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁸ But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.

re·pent·ance

 [ri-pen-tns, -pen-tuhns] Show IPA

noun

1.

deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.

2.

regret for any past action.

 

"You hold my every moment. You calm my raging seas. You walk with me through fire and heal all my disease. I trust in you. I trust in you. I believe you're my healer. I believe you are all I need. I believe you're my portion. I believe you're more than enough for me. Jesus you're all I need.Nothing is impossible for You. Nothing is impossible for You. Nothing is impossible for You. You hold my world in Your hands."  -Healer by Kari Jobe 

 

I'm sorry for not posting as much as I used to. I felt like I ran out of ideas. I didn't know what to write anymore. So today I just kept praying for revelation from God and I feel that he has blessed me with it. 

 

Repentance. I believe that God has been speaking to me using different people. He used the same words. I feel like he used two different people in two different situations to say the same thing. Repentance is not about saying sorry. It is about really coming to God and regretting what you did. 

 

I know I stated this in another blog but I'll just repeat myself so I can make a point. I got baptized when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot about being baptized I just knew that after I was baptized I would be allowed to participate in communion. I had times in my life where I thought I had to get baptized again because I felt that the sin I committed was to great to be forgiven. I thought that being re-baptized was the only way to go. I eventually learned that once I was baptized I would never need to get baptized again. Once I was baptized I was forgiven for my sins of yesterday today and tomorrow. All I needed to do was repent and God would forgive me. 

 

Here is where it gets tricky. In my life I feel like I have done some things that would be considered really bad. When those things happened it was easy to go to God full of repentance because I felt the weight of the sin I committed. When I committed things I considered minor I would just ask God to forgive me. I would not feel an ounce of guilt. This is when I must remember that in God's eyes sin is SIN. Any type of sin still breaks his heart. Any type of sin still angers him. So every time I mess up I must go to him full of repentance. I must plead for his forgiveness and know that I have received it. 

 

I must go to His throne and take off the heavy coat of filth. I should sit at His feet and surrender all my junk to Him so that He may take it away from me. He will pour out His cleansing rain and wash me white as snow. I must come to Him so that He can give me the coat He has called me to wear. One beautiful with all of the characteristics of His Holy Spirit and share it with anyone who might be going through the same situation.