Friday, February 17, 2012

Repentance and Identity

I have been reading a wonderful book - The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life - by Robert Webber (highly recommended) and encountered an amazing definition of repentance that I wanted to share with you. Read, reread, and digest this.

God's vision for us is a reversal of our present identity...The old identity, like Adam, turns in on the self, worships and adores the self, preserves the self, lives out of the self. The new identity with Jesus is an identity with the second Adam. Now it is Jesus who shapes our self-understanding and action.

Repentance is to hear God's story and to be struck by its truth, in the heart - in the innermost chamber of our being - every day. Repentance is the desire to leave behind our old identity with the first Adam and continually turn toward a new identity in Jesus.

What do you think?

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