He tried to play all those games, and he said, God, my guilt, this burden, this sin, is too heavy to bear. And when something is too heavy to bear, Im talking about a sin, it begins to freak us out. Maybe right now youre worried about getting the letter, receiving the phone call, being found out. Maybe right now youre saying, Ed, I feel heavy. I feel burdened. I feel guilt. And if youre heavy, and youre guilt-stricken, it leads to a jumbled judgement.
You cant make good judgement calls anymore. You cant make a clear read anymore. You cant see whats going on anymore. Maybe right now youre saying, I cant believe Im involved in this. I mean, five years ago, I would have never thought I would be involved in this, but here I am. What do I do? What do I do?
Ill tell you what we can do, because theres hope. Ill tell you what we can do. If were stuck on the surface, clogged with sin, Ill tell you what we can do to move from the surface to the depths. We can appropriate and apply I John 1:9. One of the most positive and freeing and uplifting and sin-clearing texts in all the Bible. Lets read it. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Its your option. Its my call. If we confess. According to
Sexperiment the word confess means to say the same thing as. So when I confess my sins, I say the same thing about my sins that God says about my sins. God calls it pride, Ive got to call it pride. God calls it anger, Ive got to call it anger. God calls it lust, Ive got to call it lust. When I confess, Im transparent with myself, Im transparent with God, and Im transparent with others as well. When we sin against anther person, oftentimes we will do the end-around.
We will circumvent forgiveness and confession by only doing confession work between ourselves and God. Yes, we sin before God. Every time we mess up its before God. But if another party is involved, the Bible encourages us to confess our sins to them too. And all you have to do is go through that drill a couple of times and youll think long and hard about sinning against another person.
