Zealous Repentance

Rev 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

We all know that good parents instruct and discipline their children, because they love them. They teach them to look before they cross a street, to eat their veggies, to say “thank you” and so many other things that will offer them a good life, if they obey.

We also all know that our kids will mess up and disobey, do stupid things, and forget to what’s right, and sometimes blatantly disobey.

But what a great thing it is to have a child return to our arms in tears, to say he’s sorry, to say she feels awful…and then to restore that child fellowship with us as they turn and learn from their mistakes.

God loves us much more than we can ever love our own kids.  Therefore, he disciplines us and leads us to repentance with his kindness.

In fact, he wants us to be zealous about repenting.

Not sure, I’ve ever felt that emotion when repenting, but here it is in this verse.

We can get on our knees, pursue holiness, and ask God to reveal any hidden sins in our hearts and then repent like the wind – and go after those things that displease him – attitudes that grieve his heart and others – and fall into his loving arms forever…