Repenting daily has many obvious blessings; it prevents you from forgetting your sins, you learn to recognize sins and feel Godly sorrow quickly, and you strive always to become clean. However, today in our Church Sacrament meeting I realized another blessing I had never noticed before.
Daily repentance directly affects the impact on our Spirits that partaking of the Sacrament has. When we speedily repent of all our sins and transgressions, we have the opportunity to be pure and clean again each week as we take of the bread and water and renew our baptisimal covenants. This in itself is a blessings, however this also brings with it another less-noticable blessing.
When we are pure, clean, and perfect for those few moments between renewing our covenants and the next mistake we make, our Spirits are as open as they can be to the Spirit. I have always felt the Spirit Strongly after taking the bread and water, but today I realized that it was more than that. This is the time of the week when I think of goals I want to make, changes I need to make, how I can help someone I've been praying for, what I need to do about a problem. The Spirit speaks to me and tells me a plethora of information that my heart opens up to while I feel pure and clean. Often this resolve does not stay, as mistakes are once again made. However, speedily repenting can bring that resolve to life again, enough to take it into action.
When we speedily repent, we not only allow ourselves to be perfectly clean for a few precious moments each week, but we also open ourselves up to the Spirit's promptings on a daily basis, as well as an onslought of Revelation that can occur every Sabbath day.
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