Those few who are friends to your soul, are your best friends (as The Apostle Paul demonstrates in today's passage in 2 Corinthians 7), and the many, who try to take you away from the matters of your soul are in fact your worst enemy!
Like Paul, we as believers need to understand that it is not "loving" to not confront sin, either within ourselves or within others (as the Apostle shows with affection & care).
God's Word describes two types of sorrow - found in vs 10 & 11-- sorrow of the world and Godly sorrow.
Worldly sorrow is concerned with how sin affects one's life and earthly losses (& concerns). It is a completely selfish, self-centred, self-obsessed, self-pitying sorrow that will always leave an emptiness within a soul. Godly sorrow however is mostly concerned with heavenly losses, more...
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Born in Wales in the United Kingdom. My parents moved to South Africa when 2 years old, spent 18 years there. I'm happily married to Emily who is from the United States. We have 8 children from The Lord. Studied at west country reformed seminary, now ceased.
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