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| The Accidental Tourist |
To produce fruits from our repentance is an edict of replacing what we had taken, of returning what we had borrowed, and putting back into the condition in the past of a thing or persons ruined and defiled by us to the extent of the condition taking place before our particular misdeeds had caused such ruin and injury. What is broken should be unbroken. A thief should give back the money he stole, and the fornicator should live a life of total devotion to the edicts of God, evading fully even the mere thought of lust and temptation. It is also to ensure our soul by giving back more than we had taken that for instance, if you stole a car, you must give back the amount of the car you stole and more in addition. That is to ensure the acceptance of your repentance.
There is also another way of producing fruits from our repentance of
countless sins throughout our lifetime, those that we could not trace anymore,
for as we say to be human in a world despoiled of strong faith, is to have
committed countless sins that are so countless that we lose count of them. This
mode of repayment is the cultivation of your hearts by helping others to be
uplifted from a life of hardship and misery. That is the power of the rewards
of repentance. In the interest of everlasting peace and harmony among brethren,
producing fruits from your repentance could be fitting in this manner. You
shall be forgiven but only if you repent immediately and produce fruits from
your repentance, in order to make a complete turnaround and turn away from a
life of sin and falsity, to accept God fully and follow His edicts and
judgments from then on.
