AUGUST 4, 2009
Don't Be Sorry, Be Sorry
The word SORRY can be used in various ways. Let me address 2 WAYS.
1. SORRY can be used in reference to remorse or regret. We should have this SORROW because we have thought ill or acted unkindly toward someone.
2. SORRY can be used in reference to a person's value or character, as in "that was a sorry thing to do." When we have done wrong, we need to be truly sorry for it, or we will be truly sorry because of it.
The First Kind Of "Sorry"
2 Corinthians 7:9-10
9) Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
10) For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
If we are not SORRY for living a SORRY life, we will be eternally SORRY.
My observation has been that most people do not like to be confronted with their sorry behavior, and they choose not to be sorry, "unto repentance." Too bad.
We can make good changes when we face our failures. If we ignore them we will continue in our failures.
Upward and Onward in Christ,
Pastor David L. Gould
