Contrition

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45. Contrition. Contrition isn't the word we hear much today.

In fact, it has an old fashioned ring to it, and some people are vey gas to its meaning.

The word contrition means being penitent for our sins.

The root of the word comes from the Latin and Old French, from a word meaning to bruise or to grind.

In other words, our sins hurt other people and offend God.

There is therefore no true repentance, no contrition until what we have done begins to hurt us to pain us as we realize what we've done.

No, God says something amazing about contrition.

I dwell in the high and holy place with Him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, Isaiah 57-15.

God acquits His two great dwelling places, the heaven of heavens, and a contrite and humble spirit.

This is why true contrition is so remarkable.

It brings the Almighty into the spirit of a man who feels contrition, whose hurts because of the hurts he's caused to others, and the hurt he renders to God's cause and kingdom.

This is a time when personal and national contrition is very seriously needed.

Pride and arrogance have ruled too many.

To heart others has become a goal for too many.

Humor has changed from being happy laughter to savage hostilities and our comedians vie and trying to demean others.

Are you the lightened, putdowns and insolence?

An uglyness has become a way of life for many.

It's time for contrition.