Repentance means stepping out of independence back into dependence, and the measure of your repentance will be the measure of your dependence. Every area of your life in which you have not learned to be truly dependent on God is an area of your life in which you have not as yet repented.

Major W. Ian Thomas in “The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me”

I found this to be a truly profound quote. Repenting being equated to the measure of dependence on Christ’s spirit to live through me. There is so much to repent of, for I have much that is trying to live independently from Christ.

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