Need you to change me..

Today at church, Pastor Andrew preached on the Lord's prayer....Matthew 6:12 "Forgive us our debts."

He just really emphasized the need for us to confess our sins to God, and to always go to Him when we fail. He reminded us that God forgives us, and "forgets them", "removes them" "makes it disappear."

But then He continued to challenge us to confess our sins, and then change and not go backwards. He wants us to be set free and to keep moving forward and not backwards.

2 Corinthians 7: 8-11

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.

I want to have this Godly sorrow that moves me to change... God have mercy on me...

I feel convicted about my conduct. I so often think that I'm better than people, but I have to realize that I'm not better than people. It's just Christ in me...Christ in me...

Luke 18: 9-14

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."