Our Father’s Kindness

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
(Romans 2:4 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

Repentance is the changing of your mind. You thought a certain way or believed a certain thing, then something happened, and now you think a different way or believe a different thing. It is what makes it possible for your behavior to change.

It is not God’s anger or sternness or lack of patience that He reveals to us to make us able to repent. It is His kindness. Since He invented kindness, and since He is always the same, His kindness is always visible and reliable and available. Always keep His kindness in mind and the rest of what you need in your mind will accompany it.