day no. 16,759: everyone repents of something

"The North Teuton really has in this respect the simplicities of the savage and the lower animals; that he has no reactions. He does not laugh at himself. He does not want to kick himself. He does not, like most of us, repent—or occasionally even repent of repenting." — G.K. Chesterton, The Appetite of Tyranny

Repentance is inescapable.

You will repent either of your sin or of your repentance.

There is a worldly kind of grief that gets tired of failing and so redefines failure as success in an attempt to assuage its guilt, but there is a godly kind of grief that accepts Christ's success on its behalf and seeks to conform to His commands by grace in gratitude.

2 Corinthians 7:10

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Worldly woe leads to wickedness, but sovereign sorrow leads to salvation. Falling short either leads one to humble submission or to proud subversion.

Everyone repents. Either we acknowledge Christ's commands as valid and forsake our opinions or we forsake Christ's opinions in order to follow our own impulses. We repent of our autonomy or we repent of God's authority.