What Happened To Repentance - Having a Repentant Heart Is Rare

August 23, 2026

Louis Boucher

Our goal as Christians should be righteousness, being save doesn't mean you keep on living a sinful life but that you embark on the road to righteousness referred by Paul as the road to perfection (Heb 6:1). Jesus himself tells us that we should be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect (Mat 5:48). Our goal should be to live a life that reflects the one we called savior, calling ourselves a Christian is to tell those around us that we are a Christ-like a reflection of Jesus. Sadly many Christian confess Jesus as lord but choose to live a life that denies they even know him. They believe that a simple confession of Jesus a savior is all that is needed to spend eternity with him and God and it isn't so. Jesus on the other hand tells us that those who seek to follow him must first be willing to deny themselves, to stop living for self and secondly are to also to pick up their cross meaning take on God agenda, to do his will which is for us to become a true reflections of him and Jesus. In John 17:3 Jesus describes eternal life not as going to heaven but as becoming one with him and with God the Father. Heb 12:14 tells us without holiness, without perfection no man will see God. The only way to spend eternity with God is but putting on his nature, by being a true reflection of his nature, to be in his image and likeness just like he intended us to be when he created us (Gen 1:26-27). To be righteous doesn't mean that we never fall but it does mean that we don't fall on purpose because it's what we want to do. When we do fall we are required to come to God with a sincere heart and repent in turn God promises to forgive us and to cleans us form our unrighteousness. Let's not forget that the day is coming when you will have to stand before Jesus to be judge by him and he will determined who truly lived a life that reelects his and who live life as a hypocrite, those who by choice fail to live in sin will find themselves separated from him for eternity and will share Satan fate in the Lake of Fire.