2 Corinthians 7:10 - Sorrow; Godly or Worldly?
2 Corinthians 7:10 (NIV) Godly sorrow brings
repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no
regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
The Sorrow that Leads to Joy
If you want to be a happy person, then
you first need to be unhappy. In other words,
you must see your true state before God as a
sinner, with no hope of saving yourself. But God
graciously offers you His forgiveness through Christ
and His death on the cross.
Jesus said, Blessed are those who
mourn, for they shall be comforted (Matthew 5:4
NLT). The last thing people want to do is mourn.
They want to laugh, party, and whoop it up. But
they dont want to look at their real condition
and be sorry for it. This reminds me of
Solomons words in Ecclesiastes: I said to myself,
Come on, lets try pleasure. Lets look for
the good things in life. But I found
that this, too, was meaningless. So I said,
Laughter is silly. What good does it do to seek
pleasure? (2:1"2 NLT).
Some people just want to laugh all the
time. They want the party to go on. They suppress
tears and seek laughter. They dont want to cry.
So they ignore their sins and dont deal with
them.
But if we want true and lasting
happiness, we must mourn our spiritual state. And then
what happens? Jesus said that wed be
comforted. When we go to God and say that were sorry
for our sin, He extends His forgiveness to us.
Thus, our sorrow leads to joy.
The Bible says, For the kind of sorrow
God wants us to experience leads us away from
sin and results in salvation. Theres no
regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow,
which lacks repentance, results in spiritual
death (2 Corinthians 7:10 NLT).
If you want to really be a happy person,
then you must see yourself as you really are - a
sinner - and be sorry for being so and resolve to
change. Without that sorrow, there will be no joy.
[Greg Laurie from Harvest Ministries;
https://www.harvestdaily.com]
LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY
2 Corinthians 7:10 - Sorrow; Godly or
Worldly?
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2009/20090908-1033.html
2 Corinthians 7:10 - Two Kinds of Sorrow:
Which Are You Experiencing?
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2003/20030827-1128.html
Matthew 5:4 - The Blessing of Mourning is
Comfort.
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2020/20200617-0837.html
Matthew 5:4 - Blessings in Grief and Sorrow.
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2005/20051012-1020.html
YOUR COMMENTS
If anyone has a paraphrase, commentary or
testimony on this passage of Scripture, either
personal or otherwise, I would be interested in
hearing from you. Thanks in advance and let's keep
uplifting Jesus that all might be drawn to Him. Fred
Gibbs
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