“It is not that you become spiritually paranoid and begin to imagine that you have committed more sins than you had previously realized (though in a sense you do begin to do this). What really happens, as God’s Spirit begins to convict you in this way, is that, as He brings a particular sin to your attention, that particular sin seems more serious than it did before”(9 Marks of a Healthy Church, 100).
I think the first sentence describes life for me–worried over my sin, thinking in terms of the number of my sins. The second sentence describes what I need (and what God works)–a sense of the seriousness of each sin, thinking in terms of the weight of my sins. May God be gracious to me–allowing real conviction towards true repentance.
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