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•8即使我先前那封信使你们忧愁，后来我曾懊悔，如今却不懊悔；因为我知道，那封信使你们忧愁，不过是暂时的。9如今我欢喜，不是因你们曾忧愁，而是因忧愁导致你们的悔改。你们依着　神的意思忧愁，凡事就不至于因我们受亏损了。10因为依着　神的意思而忧愁，就生出没有懊悔的悔改来，以致得救；但世俗的忧愁叫人死。

 保罗用优美的语言在这几句经文里讲述了悔改对我们情感上的影响。他在这里说，依着上帝的意思忧愁能让人悔改，但世俗的忧愁叫人死。当我们面对自己犯下的罪，我们的心要么经历那种按着神的意思忧愁，要么经历那种世俗的忧愁。保罗这里谈到的世俗的忧愁实际上指的是我们无法两全其美。我们无法抓住上帝不放，同时又抓住罪不放，所以我们会忧愁。我们忧愁不能继续犯罪，我们忧愁我们和上帝之间的关系妨碍了我们罪性的深处真正想要的东西。让我们承认吧，悔改不是一件容易的事。我的罪性会不满、会拳打脚踢、喊叫，甚至是哀嚎。我们心里这样的忧愁会导致死亡，会导致我们在生命中只选择做自己，而不是紧紧抓住上帝。这是世俗 的忧愁带来的。

     而依着上帝的意思忧愁，只有在圣灵藉着他的恩典在我们心里动工的时候才能产生的。这种忧愁是，我们在心里感到因为我们得罪了我们那位圣洁、公义、慈爱的父神。我们感到忧愁，并不是我们必须放弃我们珍爱的罪，反而是因为罪导致我们失去了我们真正应该珍惜的耶稣。这种忧愁会让我们愤怒，但不是针对上帝，而是针对我们自己，因为我们没能在心里尊上帝的名为圣。依着上帝的意思忧愁以及真正的悔改，会让我们得救，而不是后悔。

      所以我们应该问自己以下这个问题：“在我悔改的生命里，是什么让我忧愁？是我无法再继续犯那些罪让我忧愁？还是我为自己一开始就在犯罪的道路上而忧愁？”依着上帝的意思忧愁会带来真正的悔改，而这能让我们得救，而不是后悔。

祷告：亲爱的圣灵，请在我的心里动工，让我依着神的意思为罪忧愁，使我悔改，让我能够得救，不至于后悔。让我的心从罪里回转，并转向那施恩惠的救主和他的赦免。阿们。

2 Corinthians 7: 8 Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— 9 yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (NIV)

Paul speaks beautifully in these verses about the emotional impact that repentance has on us. He talks about a godly sorrow that leads to repentance and a worldly sorrow that leads to death. When we are confronted with a sin that we are committing, our heart will experience sorrow in one of two ways. The worldly sorrow that Paul is talking about is sorrow over the fact that we can’t have it both ways. We cannot cling to God and to our sin at the same time. So we are sad. Sad that we can’t have our sin. Sad that our relationship with God is going to get in the way of what I really want, deep down inside of our sinful nature. Let’s admit it. Repentance is not easy. My sinful nature will pout and kick and scream and wail. This kind of sorrow in our heart leads to death, a life in which we choose to be ourselves instead of clinging to God.

Godly sorrow is something that only the Holy Spirit can work in our heart by his grace. It is a sorrow that we feel in our hearts because we have offended our holy and righteous and loving Father. It is a sorrow we feel, not because we must give up our treasured sin, but because for a moment sin has caused us to lose hold of our real treasure, Jesus. It is a sorrow that makes us angry, not with God, but with ourselves, because we have not kept God’s name holy in our hearts. Godly sorrow and true repentance leads to salvation and leaves no regret.

So we should ask ourselves the question, “In my life of repentance, what makes me sad?  That I cannot take up my sin any longer?  Or that I ever went down that road in the first place?”  Godly sorrow brings true repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret.    

Prayer:   Holy Spirit, love Divine, work in my heart godly sorrow for my sins that leads to repentance and that leaves no regrets. Turn my heart away from my sin and to my gracious Savior and his forgiveness! Amen