Blessing
In Acts 3:26, speaking to the “men of Israel” (v. 12) on Solomon's portico, Peter makes this point:
God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.
What a different perspective on wickedness! The world loves to portray uprightness as boring, and those who promote it as wowsers and killjoys. “What a nightmare”, the world might say, “to have to become a Christian and to live a life devoid of any enjoyment!”
But no. It is actually a blessing to have been turned away from wickedness.
This verse is also a good reminder that, while it is true that Christians have ‘repented’ and turned away as an act of our own will, it is fundamentally God who turns us. Pray that he would bless more people in this way.