Godly sorrow inspires change and hope through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Worldly sorrow pulls us down, extinguishes hope, and persuades us to give in to further temptation. Godly sorrow leads to conversion and a change of heart. It causes us to hate sin and love goodness.
But worldly grief makes you idle and stagnant. You don't change. You don't grow. You don't fight against the deeds of the flesh. Instead you ruminate on your mistakes and obsess about what people's opinions and ponder what might have been.
2 Corinthians 7:10 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.
Feeling guilt when we sin is a good and godly and healthy response. So we run to God and seek his forgiveness. But feeling shame when we sin is a bad and destructive response that compels us to run from him for fear of his disdain and contempt. (2) Shame can lead to a variety of emotions and actions.
Godly sorrow is when the Holy Spirit places a sadness upon your heart and spirit and tells you that something is not right. We have done something wrong, and we need to repent and return to the Father. Taylor Jensen. Pastor. Jan 04, 2022.
Godly sorrow inspires change and hope through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Worldly sorrow pulls us down, extinguishes hope, and persuades us to give in to further temptation. Godly sorrow leads to conversion and a change of heart. It causes us to hate sin and love goodness.
Paul writes, “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” Most people have likely not considered that there are different kinds of grief. One is godly and the other is worldly.
True Guilt and False Guilt
False guilt comes when we take responsibility for something that was not our calling or is not under our control. True guilt comes when we shirk responsibility for something that is the call or command of God.
“Guilt” can describe the condemnation we deserve for our sin, just as a judge would pronounce someone “guilty.” But the word “guilt” can also be used to refer to the feeling we get when our conscience reacts to wrongdoing.
Guilt promotes changes in your behavior and allows you to reach out for help if you need it. Hiding sins from God never elicits true repentance (see Alma 39:8). It can't. Repentance is only possible through your Redeemer (see 2 Nephi 10:24; Mosiah 16:13; Alma 13:5).
While worldly often describes individuals who are sophisticated and well-rounded in education, travel, and experiences, it's also used for people who are rooted in the world or focused on physical and material things around them, rather than on spiritual matters.
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret. Godly sorrow leads to real and lasting change. Godly sorrow is the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience.
One of the clearest examples Scripture gives of worldly sorrow is Judas. It is said of Judas that he “felt remorse” for betraying Christ, that he “returned the thirty pieces of silver” by which he was bribed, and that he even openly confessed, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood” (Matt 27:3).
Grieving someone alive is not a conventional form of grief that is often talked about, but is a real issue that is faced by the living. Death is often viewed as the base requirement for grief but mourning the deceased is only one facet of death.
Grief and sorrow go together, but there is a slight difference in the two. Grief is the name of the process that your heart goes through when you have experienced a loss. Sorrow is the emotion that your heart is feeling.
In his reflections, Jaspers establishes four types of guilt, viz. criminal, political, moral, and metaphysical.
Because of Jesus Christ's infinite Atonement, your guilt can be swept away if you fully repent. But people sometimes still feel flashes of guilt over the memory of their sins even though they've repented. Guilt, or “godly sorrow” (2 Corinthians 7:10), can be helpful.
Like all self-conscious emotions, guilt originates from a process of self-evaluation and introspection and may involve your perception of how others value you.
Isaiah and Jeremiah have other examples: "Behold you are angry, and we are sinful; all of us have become like unclean men, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; we have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind" (Is 64.5); "Even though our crimes bear witness against us, take action, O ...
The degree of one's perceived responsibility for the event. Perceived insufficient justification for the event's occurrence. Perceived violation of one's values in the course of the event. Having beliefs that the event was either foreseeable or preventable.
In previous articles, we have pointed out that God has promised some things unconditionally and some things with conditions that had to be met. We also noted that salvation is definitely one of those that is conditional.
2 Corinthians 7:10 Describes Two Paths of Grief
Maybe it's sorrow over the effects of sin in one's life, the pain that sin causes. But it never really reaches this grief before God. This sorrowful realization that one has offended the holy God of the universe, disobeyed him, and many times hurt others in the process.
He has searched us and knows us. “Before a word is on our tongue, the LORD knows it completely.” (Psalm 139:4) And so, in our grief, we do not need to hide our thoughts from God. We can go to the Lord in prayer and just lay our burdens before him. God gave us the Psalms to teach us how to cry out to him.