Two choice of flower to grow in nature's garden by Charles Spurgeon. Godly sorrow works repentance. Second Corinthians chapter 7 verse 10.

Genuine spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature's garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners unless divine grace works it in them. If you have one particle of real hatred for sin, then God must have given it to you. For human nature's thorns never produced a single fig. That which is born of the flesh is flesh.

True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross. It will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only in the light of His love.

True sorrow for sin is eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally, just as a burnt child dreads the fire. We shall be as much afraid of sin as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of a thief upon the highway. And we shall shun sin, shun it in everything, not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun little vipers as well as great ones.

True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest we should say a wrong word. We shall also be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend. Each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcomings, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers that this day God would hold us up, that we may not sin against Him.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This sorrow for sin is not intermittent. every other sorrow yields to time but this dear sorrow grows with our growth it is so sweet a bitter that we thank God we are permitted to enjoy it until we enter our eternal rest you