As Christians we are called to a life of repentance but that means that we will need to continually be confronted by our sin through the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
The body's sense of touch is truly a gift for God and enables us to learn about the physical world around us. As we train the sense of touch we learn to distinguish between different surfaces. However if we ignore our sense of touch and continue towards a hot surface we will be burned and loose sensitivity. The pain we feel as a result is an indicator of the damage done and although the body heals and the pain fades we forever carry the scars and a lose of sensitivity.
As we use the sense of touch in the physical world spiritually we are gifted with a conscience to distinguish between right and wrong. And as with a hot surface if we ignore our conscience we will be burned as we sin and cause a lose of sensitivity in the spirit. But unlike a physical scar that has temporal consequence the spiritual scar of sin has eternal consequence. But like the feeling pain after a burn the feeling guilt and grief after a sin helps us to identify the damaged area. We can ignore the guilt and it will fade but along with it also a lose of sensitivity in the spirit to distinguish right and wrong in the future. If however we chose to deal with the guilt we have to be wary of how we go about it as was Paul's fear for the Corinthians. A Godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret. Possible because of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice on the cross. This repentance totally heals the spiritual scars and restores our sensitivity in the spirit as we are reconciled to God. However worldly grief is brought on when through sin we see only the lose of the worlds approval, the approval of family and friends and seek only to regain their approval and not Gods. There is no repentance only a resolve to do better and regret remains. This worldly grief leads only to death and is empty and void of salvation. The spiritual scar of sin remains and the sensitivity of the spirit lost. The wrath of God remains on the sin... And with it divine judgement and death
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