Exodus 9:27
Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and
Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and
I and my people are in the wrong."
It is difficult to say whether Pharaoh
believed himself sincere only later to come back to his former senses or
whether he knew himself to be deceitful in this repentance, but either way, we
understand that there exists a tendency in mankind to be compliant to God's
commands only to the point that it benefits the man. True repentance is to the glory
of God as the good of the man. False conversion assumes the good of man is the
glory of God.
Yes! It is easy to 'repent' when the devastation of our sin is so readily evident, and the pressure relief valve lies in the "I'm sorry." But whether we stick by it when there's no major pain point riding on it anymore is more telling.
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