Repentance by Mason

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 15, 1878

Repentance.

By Mason

REPENTANCE begins in the humiliation of the heart and ends in reformation of the life. He that repents of sin as sin, implicitly repents of all sin.

You cannot repent too soon. There is no time like to-day! Yesterday is gone, to-morrow is God's, not your own. And think how sad it will be to have your evidences to seek, when your cause is to be tried; to have your oil to buy when you should have it to burn! If we put off our repentance to another day, we have a day more to repent of and a day less to repent in.

Let the hopes of mercy encourage to the exercise of repentance. Turn to God, and he will turn to you, and then you are happy though all the world turn against you. If we think amiss of Christ we shall never believe; if we think well of sin, we shall never repent. If we study to honor God, we cannot do it better than by confessing our sins, and laying ourselves low at the feet of Christ.

Reliance is the essence of faith, Christ is the object of faith, the word is the food, and obedience the proof; so that true faith is depending upon Christ for salvation in a way of obedience, as He is offered in the word. Justifying faith is always attended with universal obedience.—Mason.