REPENTANCE....

ROMANS 2:4

THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADS YOU TO REPENTANCE....

GLORY BE TO THE GOD OF GODS, LORD OF LORDS....

REPENT IN GREEK IS METANOEO.

METANOEO CAME FROM THE WORDS:

META- MEANING AFTER

NOEO- MEANING TO THINK.

TO REPENT THEREFORE MEANS TO THINK AFTER.

IT IS SYNONYMOUS TO : REFLECTING ON OUR PAST ACTIONS.

THIS THINKING OF OUR PAST ACTIONS IS DONE SO THAT WE WILL KNOW WHERE WE WENT WRONG, TO COME TO KNOWLEDGE OF OUR PAST ACTIONS THAT IS A MISTAKE THAT COULD HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS OF GOD, OR HAS UNFAIRLY TREATED OUR FELLOWMEN.

TO THINK AFTER, TO REFLECT BACK ON OUR PAST ACTIONS WILL ALSO LEAD TO THE AWARENESS ON WHAT TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER, IN ORDER TO BECOME A BETTER PERSON IN THE LONG RUN.

TO BECOME AWARE OF OUR PAST MISTAKES LEADS TO CHANGE OUR MINDS, THAT LEADS TO A CHANGE OF ACTION.

THE DECISION OF CHANGE IS SUCH THAT ONE TURNS AROUND FROM OUR MISTAKES, AND PURSUE ANOTHER PATH THAT LEADS TO A BETTER LIFE.

TO REPENT, IN IT'S DEEPER CONCEPT, MEANS THE DELIBERATE ACT OF THE WILL TO DECIDE TO TURN AROUND FROM EVIL AND FOLLOW GOD'S WAY INSTEAD OF OUR OWN.

HOPE THAT WE REMEMBER HOW GOD IS GOOD TO US.
GOD HAS LOVED US THAT HE SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON UNTO THIS WORLD,
SO THAT HUMANS MAY BE RECONCILED TO GOD.

NO AMOUNT OF EFFORT OR ACTIONS COMING FROM US CAN SAVE US.
IT IS ONLY BY GOD'S MERCY AND GOD'S LOVE WE WILL BE SAVED.

THE MERCY AND LOVE OF GOD IS EXPRESSED IN HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE MESSIAH.

IN ACCEPTING THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, THE WAY TO GOD BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR US, TO WALK ON AND TO FOLLOW.

MAY EVERYONE WHO SEARCHES FOR GOD IN THEIR HEARTS ACCEPT THE SALVATION OFFERED BY OUR LORD CHRIST JESUS.

MAY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD SINCERELY REPENT, HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE GOD, AND BECOME REUNITED WITH GOD.

MAY THE EVILS OF THE HEARTS OF MEN BE CHANGED WITH THE REALIZATION THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS WRONG, THAT THERE IS STILL TIME TO REPENT, AND CHANGE ONE'S WAYS, TO LIVE A LIVE WHERE GOD IS IT'S CENTER.

MAY THE PROUD AND THE ARROGANT BE HUMBLED BEFORE GOD.
MAY THE EVIL DOERS BE STOPPED FROM DOING EVIL.

MAY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CAUSES OF DIVISIONS AND WARS AMONG MEN BE PUT TO STOP.

MAY GOD'S KINGDOM REIGN IN THE HEARTS OF MEN, DOING WHAT IS GOOD, AND SHUNNING AWAY FROM EVIL.

MAY PEOPLE WHO HAVE RICHES AND WEALTH SHARE THEIR WEALTH TO THE POOR AND THE NEEDY, THE HUNGRY, THE DESTITUTE, THE SUFFERING AND THE SICK.

MAY PEOPLE'S HEARTS BE AWAKENED THAT THEY MAY SEE AND HEAR THE CRIES OF THE POOR, THE ORPHANS, THE WIDOWS, THE SICK, THE ABANDONED, THE LESS FORTUNATE ONES....

MAY PEOPLE'S HEART OF STONE BE CHANGED WITH THE HEART OF FLESH, FEELING THE PAINS AND SUFFERINGS OF OTHERS, SO THAT EVERYONE MAY LEARN TO HELP OTHERS ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY ARE BLESSED...

MAY THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD AWAKEN FROM THEIR LONG SLEEP AND BLINDNESS... MAY PEOPLE REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF HELPING OTHERS IN NEED...

MAY PEOPLE TURN TO GOD AS THEIR SOURCE OF LIGHT...
MAY PEOPLE BE AWAKENED AND REPENT FROM THEIR SINFUL WAYS.

MAY PEOPLE CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AND SET GOD AS THE FOUNDATION OF THEIR LIVES.

MAY MORE PEOPLE BECOME GODLY, GOD FEARING, AND RIGHTEOUS.

MAY THE LIGHT OF GOD SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE IN THIS WORLD, TO DESTROY THE DARKNESS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN, SO THAT MEN BE AWAKENED FROM THE SPELL OF EVIL, FROM APATHY, FROM GREED, FROM ARROGANCE, FROM SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FROM HYPOCRISY, AND FROM EVERY VILE AND EVIL THING.

MAY PEOPLE GO BACK TO GOD AND BE RECONCILED WITH HIM.

TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLOUS AND REMAIN TO EVIL AFTER ALL THE EFFORT GOD HAS MADE TO SAVE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, IT IS GOD'S HANDS WHO WILL DEAL WITH YOU IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.

NO ONE WILL ESCAPE JUDGMENT OF GOD...
NO ONE EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE ONE WITH CHRIST UNTIL THE END....

GLORY TO GOD FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.