How often we stumble and make false promises to God.

Instead, let us take a step towards getting right before God by repenting and trusting in His Grace and Mercy.

Let’s face it. Our promises to God and others are often very fickle, and we end up not fulfilling our end of the agreement.

Our natural human tendencies in moments of guilt lead us to create a set of restrictions and rules to abide by instead of dealing with the actual issue.

But there is something freeing in approaching God for forgiveness in our lives.

When we instead place our trust in God to fulfill His promises to complete the work, He began in us than to put faith in our abilities to successfully deliver on a promise.

So what is repentance?

Firstly we need to realize that repentance is not a symbol of weakness but a word of power and action.

Repentance also breaks chains that bind a sinner and sets them free moreover, even Heaven rejoices at the repentance of one sinner.

Luke 15:7 (NKJV)

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

We might feel unworthy to receive God’s forgiveness, but a repentant heart is the one that God can use.

Examples of such are presented throughout the Bible:

• Peter repented, and became a mighty rock in the structure of the early Church.
• David repented, and his joy was expressed in the music of the Psalms.
• Jonah repented, and a great city heard the Gospel and turned to God.
• Jacob repented, and God made him an ancestor of the Messiah, the Savior.
• Paul repented, and God used him to take the light of the Gospel to a pagan world.

Today even if you are in the dept of your sins, repent and put your home in Jesus, our Lord, and Saviour.