Show me why I should change!

Morning: Psalm 45; Revelation 11:14-19

Evening: Psalm 47, 48; Luke 11:27-36

Jesus’s message of repentance is more than a simple call to admit you have acted or thought wrongly. Repentance, for Jesus, is a call to change your whole life’s focus, as Thomas Keating puts it: “Change the direction in which you look for happiness.” In common with all human beings, you can become set in your ways; change is difficult. You risk ‘barking up the wrong tree’ with no hope of seeing the error of your ways. You have to be ready to change direction, Jesus says, if you don’t want to get stuck in the dark.