Lesson 9: Godly Sorrow

We need to understand the importance of sorrow:
• Sorrow is the natural response that we feel within to the various challenges and failures we experience in a fallen world.
• Sorrow is an important emotional that we should expect to experience on a regular basis.
• Sorrow can be used by God to accomplish good in us.
• Sorrow can be used by Satan to cripple us and cause us to become essentially paralyzed in our Christian walk.
• If we rarely feel sorrow, then we are likely dealing with some form of self-deception, because we sin daily and are constantly in need of forgiveness and restoration to fellowship with God and others.
• The presence of sorrow and then the absence of sorrow do not necessarily mean that we have properly dealt with the root cause of our sorrow.