Godly Sorrow

PRAISE THE LORD..!

I am going to tell you about two different sorrows that are mentioned in the Bible.

1)     GODLY SORROW

2)     WORLDLY SORROW

2 Corinthians 7:10

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 

From the above verse we can see that there will not be any regret in us regarding the godly sorrow that we went through. Instead it will bring repentance in us and will lead us to salvation.

But worldly sorrow will bring death, death to our spiritual life, death to our prayer life, death to our family life etc.

In the next verse we can see more explanation regarding the Godly sorrow:

2 Corinthians 7:11

See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Godly sorrow will produce things in our life when worldly sorrow destructs things in our life.

Let us see what all things Godly sorrow produces in us:

1)      Earnestness-  (characterized by or proceeding from an intense and serious state of mind)

2)     Eagerness to clear yourselves- (marked by enthusiastic or impatient desire or interest)

3)     Indignation- (anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean)

4)     Alarm- (sudden sharp apprehension and fear resulting from the perception of imminent danger)

5)     Longing-  (a strong desire especially for something unattainable)

6)     Concern- (to have an influence on)

7)      Readiness to see justice done-  (prepared mentally or physically for some experience or action)

Thus Godly sorrow produces in us new things while worldly sorrow brings death.

Example for Godly sorrow: Peter’s sorrow (Luke 22:60-62). Peter wept bitterly here, but his sorrow produced in him all the things what we discussed above.

Example for Worldly sorrow: Judas’s sorrow (Matthew 27:3-5). Here his sorrow brings death to him.

Now by these verses we can distinguish between Godly sorrow and worldly sorrow and can be prepared to face the situations accordingly by the grace of God.

MAY GOD BLESS U ALL…