What does godly sorrow involve?

Don Hart explains in this video that godly sorrow is a grieving heart and mind because we know that we have sinned against God who gave His only begotten Son for us. We realize that we have failed to follow the Savior that came and lived a perfect life, died unjustly, was abused and mocked, and took the wrath of God upon Himself.

When a Christian sins against their Savior, they grieve. They are not grieved because of the consequences or the trouble that they have gotten themselves in. Their heart breaks and their mind aches because they know that they have sinned against God. 

1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV) Christ “Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”



Godly sorrow is a grieving heart, an aching heart, a grieving mind, because we know that we have sinned against and grieved the one who gave his only begotten son for us. That we have failed to follow the Savior who came and lived perfectly and died so unjustly, so abused, so lied about, so slandered, so mocked, so physically horribly abused on the cross and who even worse than that took the wrath of God on himself for us When the Christian sins against a savior like that against the kind of God that would give his only begotten Son to do that in the wondrous way that we are saved. We grieve. We have a sorrow that's not about the consequences and not just about the punishment and not just about the trouble that we've gotten ourselves in from a worldly standpoint, but we grieve. Our heart breaks and our mind grieves because we know we've sinned against a God.

A God who we know and a God who has expressed his love for us. You