What is Repentance – Dwight Lyman Moody

It is, right about face! I think these soldiers understand that expression. Some one has said that every one is born with his back to God, and that conversion turns him right round. If you want to be converted, and want to repent, I will tell you what you should do. Just get out of Satan’s service, and get into the Lord’s. Leave your old friends, and unite yourself with God’s people. I shall be gone on a journey shortly. If, when I am in the train, a friend should say, “Moody, you are going in the wrong train.” “My friend,” I should say, “you have made a great mistake; the guard told me this is the right train.” You are wrong, I am sure you are wrong. the guard told me this is the right train.” Then my friend would say, “Moody, I have lived here forty years, and I know all about the trains. That train is the wrong one.” He at last convinces me, and I get out of that train and get into the right one. Repentance is getting out of one train and getting into the other. You are on the wrong train; you are in the broad path that taketh you down to the pit of hell. Get out of it to-night. Right about face! Who will turn his feet towards God? Turn ye, for why will ye die?” In the Old Testament the word is “turn.” In the New Testament the word is “repent.

(D. L. Moody.)