Lonnell Williams

You might have to back up.

You might have to try again.

Just like you got to turn the music down just a little bit just to make sure you can concentrate.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the evidence of repentance is not that you made the turn perfectly.

The evidence is that you actually turned.

Because God is not looking for people who just feel bad on the side of the road.

He is calling for people who refuse to keep driving in the wrong direction.

And the problem, help me, Holy Ghost, with the church is that we do not repent.

We live with conviction, but we do not change for repentance.

Conviction without repentance is feeling the weight of the truth while still negotiating with sin.

And the feeling is real.

It's going nowhere.

It has no destination.

It has no prescribed outcome, no forwarding address, no direction.

Conviction is the smoke alarm.

Repentance is leaving the house while it's on fire.

And some of us keep thanking God the alarm still works while refusing to walk out of a burning house.

You are not delivered because you heard the alarm.

You are delivered when you obey the warning.