Chew on this

My former boss in Charlotte has a very cool group on facebook where we read through scripture together and he leads in discussion...oh technology.
Anyways in lieu of that today he posted this. This is good and something to really chew on.
It's from Tim Keller's book Counterfeit god's

"Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change. Indeed, it is when we rejoice over Jesus' sacrificial love for us most fully that, paradoxically, we are most truly convicted of our sin. When we repent out of fear of consequences, we are not really sorry for the sin, but for ourselves. Fear based repentance (I'd better change or God will get Me") is really self-pity. In fear based repentance we don't learn to hate the sin for itself, and it doesn't lose its attractive power...Fear based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy based repentance makes us hate the sin." (p 172)