Why is repentance so important to God? Because only it can lead a person to reduce the sinfulness of his life. It reconciles a person with the Creator, testifies to a change in spirit and a desire to live differently than in the past. Confession was created so that a person could start all over again, as if from a clean slate. Confession rehearsal - a prayer of repentance. What is it?
Psalm of the king's regret
There is no single or most important formula for repentance. In fact, turning to the Lord can take very different forms, up to prayer in your own words and a request to forgive a sinner or a sinner. However, the oldest prayer of repentance in the Bible is the 50th psalm of David, in which the Jewish king asks for forgiveness for the terrible sin of murder, committed under the influence of envy and lust. It does not describe exactly what David was guilty of, therefore the 50th psalm is a universal formula for repentance. He will be in tune with your trouble. In prayerAs a rule, it is usually read not in the evening, but in the morning. But if you feel that you have succumbed to the sinful attraction and it is difficult for you to fight, then you can memorize it and read it at any time. It is also good to remember the prayer “Let God rise again”, it helps not to sin if you read it when you only want to commit a sin.
Why Orthodox Greeks were ambassadors
In general, almost all prayers from the prayer book have a repentant spirit. An Orthodox person is always critical of himself and knows how to see his mistakes. True believers of this denomination know how to be sincerely diplomatic, although this seems like a paradoxical statement. However, the fact is that Orthodox Christians were often appointed as ambassadors and emissaries in the Ottoman Empire. They knew how to create positive relationships, in large part because they saw their delusions. And the prayer of repentance, read every day, did not allow us to forget about our own imperfection. However, she was usually not alone.
Invoking the Holy Spirit
There are more purely repentant conversions in the evening rule than in the morning. In the third prayer to the Holy Spirit, the believer tests himself against very high moral standards. For example, even upsetting another person is a serious moral violation. To show anger means to provoke a negative reaction of another person, that is, to make the innocent out of the guilty. Of course, the manifestation of reciprocal anger is not only your responsibility, but before God at the Judgment you will answer for yourself, and not for “that guy”. That's whyto provoke means to slander with anger. The rest of the sins from this prayer are more understandable. For example, lie, sleep more than measure, incite another person to inappropriate behavior, think about indecent things (if just a thought came to mind, but you didn’t focus on it, this doesn’t count). The same prayer mentions envy, malevolence, drunkenness, overeating.
However, the most important Christian prayer of repentance is the daily confession of sins. It mentions the most common mistakes, but if necessary, this list can and should be supplemented with your own sins. For this, you can use ascetic Orthodox literature. And remember that the Lord forgives only those who repent, however, innocence is better than repentance.
