JM
Puritan Board Doctor
"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:22
“Godly sorrow is that sorrow that drives you to Christ. It is focused on God and our affront to Him. It causes us to fall at His feet begging mercy because we have no other hope but in His sovereign mercy.
Worldly sorrow is the sorrow of religion. It is focused on me and drives me to look to myself. It lays guilt on me and and can never purge the conscience. It brings death because it looks to me.
Psalm 51 is an example of godly sorrow. David had just killed Urriah in order to steal his wife and the prophet Nathan, as the mouth of God, called him out on it. David then wrote Psalm 51. Jer. 31:18,19 is another example of godly sorrow. Israel’s history is an example of worldly sorrow.” – Ron Wood
“Godly sorrow is that sorrow that drives you to Christ. It is focused on God and our affront to Him. It causes us to fall at His feet begging mercy because we have no other hope but in His sovereign mercy.
Worldly sorrow is the sorrow of religion. It is focused on me and drives me to look to myself. It lays guilt on me and and can never purge the conscience. It brings death because it looks to me.
Psalm 51 is an example of godly sorrow. David had just killed Urriah in order to steal his wife and the prophet Nathan, as the mouth of God, called him out on it. David then wrote Psalm 51. Jer. 31:18,19 is another example of godly sorrow. Israel’s history is an example of worldly sorrow.” – Ron Wood
