“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and
will forgive our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 (NIV)
God,
in His wisdom, takes away all our sin and purifies our hearts when we confess
our wrongdoing.
He,
who knows when we have transgressed and gone against His design for our lives,
wants to hear from us because when we tell Him what we did and that we know it
was wrong, He knows we are truly sorry for our sins.
I
remember an ad for a silver polish on television as I grew up. A person dipped
a rust encrusted spoon into a container of the polish, let it set a few
seconds—I’m sure it was time lapse photography--, and pulled it out. The
utensil looked like brand new, all sparkly and clean.
Our
heavenly Father listens to our confession and speaks words of forgiveness,
comfort, and healing into our ears. Sometimes, He chooses to put His hand on
our shoulder; other times He wraps His arms around us and hugs us. In whatever
way He chooses, God restores us to Himself.
Prayer:
Thank
You, Father, for hearing our confessions. Thank You, for Your forgiveness and
Your cleansing us from our sins. We love You, Lord. We give You the praise. In
the name of Jesus , we pray. AMEN
God's restoration is amazing, isn't it? I'm very thankful for it.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Karen
God's acceptance of our confessions makes us humble and rich. We are humbled when we realize He forgives us because He wants to because of His love for us. We learn of His immeasurable love and we incorporate that into our hearts.
DeleteThat's a good visual (a shiny, sparkly spoon with the tarnish removed)! We Christians get to have that FEELing when we've experienced Christ's forgiveness. What a great truth!
ReplyDeleteRhonda:
DeleteThank you for your thought. We all experience that cleansed feeling when we openly admit our sins to Jesus.