Today's promise: God is always willing
to forgive us
Have you been paralyzed
by the failure to confess?
When I refused to
confess my sin, I was weak and miserable and groaned all day long.
Day and night your hand
of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer
heat.
Finally, I confessed all
my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them.
I said to myself,
"I will confess my rebellion to the Lord." And you forgave me! All my
guilt is gone.
Therefore, let all the
godly confess their rebellion to you while there is time.
Psalm 32:3-6 NLT
Confessing instead of hiding
We find many ways to get
around admitting our sin. We rationalize our sins away. We try to drown out the
guilt with all types of distractions. But over time, our sins deplete our will
to pray. David was intimately familiar with all the ways one can try to hide
sin. He had exhausted himself covering up his own sins. But everything changed
when he finally gave up running away from his sin: "Finally, I confessed
all my sins to you."
Like David, we can find
our prayer life renewed when we freely confess our sins to God. Confess your
sin and let God restore your prayer life to what it can and should be.
Prayer for today:
Dear Lord, I don't want
to hide my sins anymore; I want to confess them to you today …
From The One Year® Book of Bible Prayers edited by
Bruce Barton, Tyndale House Publishers (2000), entry for January 4
On the other hand…
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them quite so much.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them quite so much.
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from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
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