18/1/2024 从忧愁中生出懊悔以致得救

林后7:8-11

我先前写信叫你们忧愁．我后来虽然懊悔、如今却不懊悔．因我知道那信叫你们忧愁、不过是暂时的。如今我欢喜、不是因你们忧愁、是因你们从忧愁中生出懊悔来．你们依着　神的意思忧愁、凡事就不至于因我们受亏损了。因为依着　神的意思忧愁、就生出没有后悔的懊悔来、以致得救．但世俗的忧愁、是叫人死。你看、你们依着　神的意思忧愁、从此就生出何等的殷勤、自诉、自恨、恐惧、想念、热心、自责, 在这一切事上你们都表明自己是洁净的。

For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while. I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death. For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

主耶稣！感谢神的话语, 从忧愁中生出懊悔, 以致得救。这节经文, 带给我劝勉, 安慰和扶持。主啊！我的良心被光照, 看见自己的过错, 败坏, 良心受到责备, 甚至心里忧愁。谢谢圣灵的帮助, 我不再在忧愁中停留, 我要进入到懊悔, 痛悔, 归回到主面前。