In order to change permanently, we must know ourselves intimately. This is an on-going process. Our relationships are a good barometer of our inner condition. Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. A. Acting upon our self-evaluation.
Godly sorrow seeks reconciliation and change.
This is the second stage of repentance. B. Confession is hard, because it requires humiliation, but it also reveals the power of God to change lives. In the fall of 1988, in the city of Rostov on the Don River in southern Russia, a man approached an evangelist and pleaded for forgiveness. The Pentecostal preacher, Joseph Bondarenko, did not understand what the man was talking about. At another service, a young man came forward and accepted Christ.