Confession
I don’t know how you feel about this, but confessing my sin has to be one of the most liberating experiences of my life. Laying my sin, sorrow, and wretched position as a man before my God brings me greater pleasure than you could ever imagine. I’m not perfect and God knows that truth. He loved me enough to die for me and to think I’d hold it all in after that, is simply pitiful.
If you’re hiding from your past, give it up. Lay it at the feet of Jesus and allow your story to heal the wounded and hurting around you. You’re a sinner and so am I. There’s nothing God doesn’t already know and nothing to be ashamed of in front of men. The writer of Ecclesiates, Solomon, says there is “nothing new under the sun”.
”for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Don’t hide from your past. Confess it.
I definitely feel that liberation that comes with confession. But even then it’s so easy for me to obsess over the sin that I know I’m forgiven of. Satan really needles me with that. And I know I’m not the only one who carries “mourning” over my sins to an unproductive, destructive point. I’m trying to let the Holy Spirit in to heal that and show me how to find balance and joy.
Sin is so complicated. You’d think that would keep us farther from it. But here we are.
As we talked about the other day, I really believe the church has taught for too long an overly negative response to sin by making it so shameful. No one wants to admit anything. We hide from it because the very place we are supposed to be able to find comfort and encouragement, the church, has turned judgmental and uncomfortable. It’s frustrating to hear of your struggle and pray for your healing. God holds nothing against you, thanks to the blood of Jesus.