There are two kinds of people when facing repentance.
1. Those who repent immediately.
2. Those who decided to wait their repentance until they are sure they would no longer be enticed by temptations.
Here is the dilemma:
1. If repent immediately, many have continued to sin and therefore making God's forgiveness and salvation stale. Making a bad name for the Lord.
2. If wait until a certainty of perfection, then God's name is honored. But presents two unaccounted problems: a). One needs to assume absolute certainty of obtaining such righteousness before repentance. b). The mystery is that no one can reach such perfection before repentance.
Hence, it is better to see our faults and repent right away, and sin not, then to wait for a comfortable moment when we think have conquered our faults. It is the devil's thrill to see us trap ourselves in sin just because we think we are doing God's name a favor.
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