APR 21, 2024

Questions to Diagnose your Spiritual Health - Do you Grieve Over Sin?

2 Corinthians 7:8-11. The question we’re asking today is, “Do you grieve over sin?”. That’s an important question, because whether you’re a Christian or not, you still sin. But when you sin, the question is does it grieve you? There are two different ways we can feel sorry for our sins, Paul says. One is the way God wants us to feel and the other is the way the world feels sorry for wrong. Godly grief is sorrow for having sinned against God, for having lost God’s approval. But it includes making a course correction, making a change in your life, your thinking and actions. Worldly grief is sorry for getting caught and for losing the world’s approval. You’ll never win trying to win the world’s approval. As soon as you get their approval, the current beliefs of culture will change, and you’ll find yourself having to change too. You’ll be in a constant state of changing your beliefs and lifestyle to follow the world and keep the world happy with you. To deal with sin in our lives, children of God need to see sin for what it is, to examine our own sin and come to hate it, knowing how ugly and terrible it is. It is our grief over sin that leads us to repentance and to a stronger devotion to God.