1132. Repentance: Emergency Brake or Steering Wheel? By Tom Obenchain · May 19, 2019, in Meridian Magazine -- Great article!
This article has so much wisdom in it! It gives me a new way to think and understand the true meaning of repentance! Repentance: Emergency Brake or Steering Wheel? By Tom Obenchain · May 19, 2019 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I grew up thinking that repentance was an emergency brake. Now, I know it is really the steering wheel. I literally cannot move forward without carefully using it every day. For many years, a daily practice of repentance never quite made sense. It was a mystery to me. Why would I need to repent each day if repentance was for emergencies? I remember thinking that if I needed daily repentance, I should reconsider my lifestyle and that instead of repenting daily I should consider not sinning daily to an extent that required repentance. If sin is the only thing we use repentance for, this thinking might be adequate. If, for now, we define sin as one of the big seven: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wra