The Upright Man

“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions” (Ecclesiastes 7:29).

God made man righteous. But man, via his own devices, sinned and fell from God’s grace.

In the Old Testament, “repent” means to be sorry. In the New Testament it means to change one's mind.

When we finally recognize our sin for what it is, an offense toward God,

and that sin now causes us pain and sorrow in mind and spirit,

and our sentiment towards sin radically shifts,

and our soul beckons us to change,

then we’re ready to return back to God and the nature and essence of our origin.

“Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” (Ezekiel 18:23)

Bill Hitchcock