Repentance?

Wow had a excellent weekend. We went up north to Elana's folk's, at Cold lake, and to a barrel racing clinic at Elana's friend Carol's at medeow lake, would have been nice to have stayed up therte for anohter week, didn't get enough visiting done.
On saterday on the way back from carols Nicole our 19 yrold niece started talking about the word, we all talked about varios subjects on he trip, bu there was one thing that she brought up, and tha was the act of repentience.
Repentance is somthing that really has stuck in my head ever since, and really not about what she was saying about it. More or less : What is repentance? And how does repentance come part of my reletionship with Christ?
On the way home last night I started reading 1 John, and it was kind of startaling to find that bears the fruits of he very questions I've been asking myself.

1 John chap 1;5-10

Walking in the light.

This is the message we have heared from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, purifies us from all sin.

If we claim to be with out sin, we decieve ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

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True confession involves a commitment not to continue in sin, We wouldn't be genuineley confessing our sins to God if we planned on commiting them again, and just wanted temporay forgivness. We should prey for strength to defeat tempation the next time we face it.

REPENT(ANCE)(S) To experience sorrow for and seek to change wrong behavior.

REMORSE A Gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs.

True repenatnce brings you closser to the Lord. Remorse I think is somthing that alot of people get cofuessed with repentance, the guilt is the lord pushing you away.