Repent

I have found that which I have desired in the everyday life as well as in the eternal. there is a goal which I feel necessary to obtain, yet I am painfully aware of the cost which I myself must pay to achieve. I press on forsaking all worldly entanglements to rid myself of the burden of guilt associated with the inevitability of failure. My goal is salvation, atonement, redemption, and fellowship of which I have already achieved by no power of my own, yet this which I have achieved I have yet to fully grasp for I have yet to come into the fullness of all that is in store for me. I repent! continuously, not because I have been already forgiven and redeemed, but because I am in need of forgiveness and redemption and it is given through my act of acceptance by repentance freely. I do not call those who have obtained all these things to repentance for they do not need or desire this work yet, but for those who long for it as a deer panting for gentle streams of water it awaits; it beckons to the broken, and calls to the worn down...repent, repent, be relieved of your burden and so more become absorbed by rest.