Ashamed of the Past
“One of the marks of true salvation is a sense of being ashamed of one’s life before coming to Christ.
John Calvin wrote: ‘As soon as the godly begin to be enlightened by the Spirit of Christ and the preaching of the gospel, they freely acknowledge that the whole of their past life, which they lived without Christ, is worthy of condemnation. So far from trying to excuse it, they are in fact ashamed of themselves. Indeed, they go farther, and continually bear their disgrace in mind, so that the shame of it may make them more truly and willingly humble before God.'” John Macarthur