“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” (Acts 3:19 NIV)
If the process of repentance is worthy of the name, we engage in the deepest kind of soul-searching, and in the process we rid ourselves of a great deal of garbage. Environmental experts tell us that our nation’s metropolitan areas are in danger of being overrun with rubbish. What is physically true of our cities is still more painfully and eternally true of our souls. Unconfessed sin, whatever its form -- bitter memories, resentments, thoughtless words, moral and ethical betrayals -- will eventually stifle the soul unless it is dealt with. The human soul can endure only so much garbage; repentance consumes it in a merciful conflagration.
-- J. Ellsworth Kalas in “Longing to Pray: How the Psalms Teach Us to Talk with God “
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