Me:  Howdy, Prodigal!  Who is your friend?

 

Prodigal:  He is my friend, Baker.  We have been talking about all that is going on.

 

Me: Has it been helpful?

 

Prodigal:  I hope so, we have been talking about sin.

 

Me:  I was just reading about sin in a book from David Jeremiah called Slaying the Giants in Your Life.

 

David talks about sin and then confession.

 

Confession is all about naked honesty before God or before fellow Christians.  It means describing our actions with the same words God uses, and no dissembling or distortion.  Confession will not allow us to foolishly hide, as Adam and Eve did in the Garden;  it will force us to change from the inside out.  “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart-these, O God, You will not despise” (Psalm 51:17).  David knew what it meant for his actions to be despised by God.  The act of confession was intensely painful and thoroughly liberating.

We all sin.  I sin. I am not perfect.  Sin can be tricky.  Sometimes only the closes ones to us can see that we have sinned.  We can fool a lot of people at times.  We cannot fool God.  We cannot fool those that love us.

This is tough for me to write this.  I don’t want to come across as someone on this throne that is judging others.  Honestly I don’t feel I even have to right to say anything about sin.

How many times have I made the wrong choice.  A thousand it seems.

How many times have I said the wrong thing.  A thousand it seems.

How many times has Jesus forgiven me.  All the time, because he shows me a love I don’t deserve.

So how in the world could I not forgive wrong words?  I am not a better person then you.  I can’t point a finger and condemn.  I can only give grace, because I understand.

 

Romans 1:5

Through Him and for His name’s sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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