"Where do you think you're going?"

Sometimes in life we're walking, running, or traveling somewhere and somebody stops us.

We don't know why and then they say, "Where do you think you're going!"

It's like we've done something wrong.

We may answer back, "Well, I'm headed over to that place."

And they shake their head -- "No, no. You're going the wrong way. You need to go back THAT way."

Is this a definition of the term, "repentance?"

To turn 180 degrees and head in a different direction?

Where do we think we're going in life and at death?

Repentance can involve a decision.

To decide to turn from dead works to serve the living God.

Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. Hebrews 6:1

Repentance is a process after this decision.

Jesus said, "Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.” Luke 17:3-4

To repent was the first item mentioned by the Lord Jesus Christ when He began His ministry.

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15

Repentance was the first of 2 concepts that Jesus said were to be preached in His name after His resurrection from the dead.

"Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." Luke 24:46-47

"Repent" was the first word Peter gave to his listeners when they wanted to know what they should do. Acts 2:37-38

Paul preached that at one time, God the Father overlooked humankind's ignorance and sinfulness but now has commanded that everyone repent. Acts 17:30

Why?

Because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a Man Whom He designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising Him from the dead. Acts 17:31

"Where do you think you're going?"

An answer could be something like this --

If I called upon the name of Jesus, could I be saved by Him? Romans 10:13

Yes.

Could I become a new person in Him? 2 Corinthians 5:17

Yes.

Could He help me by His Holy Spirit to turn from my old life to follow Him?

Yes.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Peter proclaimed that God has raised up His servant Jesus and sent Him to you first to bless you by turning each of you away from doing evil. Acts 3:26

Your thoughts?

R. Jason