Repentance

WHEN BABIES ARE born prematurely, one of the most common critical problems is with their underdeveloped lungs...

In September 1996, the New England Journal of Medicine reported the results of a pilot study that offered hopeful treatment. The treatment is surprising. In the study, doctors filled the lungs of critically ill premature babies with liquid -- an oxygen-rich liquid. Through this liquid the babies actually "breathe."

Normally, when fluid fills the lungs, people drown. But this special oxygen-filled fluid actually saves lives.

THOUGHT: In a similar way, there is a sorrow that kills and another sort of sorrow that brings life. Sorrow because there are consequences for my sin drowns my spirit and brings death; godly sorrow that produces repentance brings life.

KneEmail: "For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death" ( 2 Cor. 7:10).

Posted by Mike Benson at October 31, 2008 11:48 AM

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