You broke a rule in your cabin service job, and you know it. You also know you should ask God’s forgiveness for what you did. But do you feel grief in your heart for having broken that rule? This is a question all of us who claim Christ as Savior need to ask ourselves sometimes.
Something that is often absent from our Christian experience is the grief that comes from realizing deep in our hearts we have done a real wrong, and in doing so grieved the heart of the God we call our own.
It is one thing to pray a prayer of confession and ask for forgiveness. It is quite another to both feel and express the pain that comes from the long-ago realization of King David; that it is, in some sense, against God and God alone that we have sinned.
Every time we deeply hurt someone by our own wrong actions, should we not feel remorse if we have truly “come to grips” with what we have done? Can we really claim to have a “Godly heart” if this is rarely the case?
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Psalm 51:4
