James 5:16 (NIV)
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and
pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous
person is powerful and effective.
So many hearts, hopes, and homes are broken by sin. This
brokenness infects our culture and invades our lives. God has provided both a
deterrent to sin and a means of forgiveness for its guilt: honest and genuine
confession of our sin. At the heart of confession is a passion to see sin for
what it is in the eyes of God and to be anguished for our participation in it.
No wonder confession is so healing (cf. 1 John 1:5-2:2). No wonder God
wants us to confess our sin to each other and then come to him for each other's
healing from sin and its damage. No wonder God grants such power to the prayer
of a righteous person interceding for one led to confess. Let's confess our sin
and leave it behind.
Thought for today:
Do I fully understand and respect the purpose for confession?
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