Spiritual DisciplinesEsimerkki

Day 8 - The Discipline of Confessing Confessing implies not just admitting to having sinned, but regretting and surrendering. If I were to say I have no sin, I would be like a child that has chocolate all around his mouth, but who swears he didn’t touch the chocolate jar. Not confessing my sins, this is the source of darkness in my life. Restlessness, worry, fear and depression prove this. At physics in school, I learnt that darkness is nothing else, but the absence of light. How do I drive darkness out? I obviously can't pick it up with a bucket and chuck it out of the window. Darkness will disappear when I turn the light on! It is the same with sin. Bring it in the light and its power will fade. As long as it stays in the darkness, it will flourish, but when you bring it to the light, it will become powerless. How do I bring it to the light? By confessing! As simple as it sounds, as hard it is to practice! Confess your sin! Don’t believe the lie that tells you that you can do it alone. You cannot! And you don’t need to do it all by yourself, because your sin was carried by Jesus and crucified on the cross. God is not taken by surprise when you sin, and He doesn’t love you any less. He cannot wait for us to confess our sins and to give us his forgiveness, because he loves us, and He doesn’t want us to live under the burden of sin. From the moment you confessed your sins, believe that they are forgiven. Believe that you are forgiven! Get up and continue your race. Don’t regret it forever. This doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t benefit you, nor the others, nor God’s Kingdom! Live in the Light!