“I Was Wrong”

Hello and good morning everyone. What are three simple words that some people do not like to say?

“I was wrong.” For some people those three words are the absolute hardest words to say, because it is the admission of guilt and shortcoming. Yet it is those same three words which we must be able to utter if we want forgiveness.

Psalms 32:5, “I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.”

There are a few definitions of the word confess, but the one that deals with the verses here today means “to admit or state that one has committed a crime or is at fault in some way.”

If someone commits a crime and confesses, they are admitting that they are at fault and that they know that what they did was wrong. They are ready to change from their ways and become a better person. 

For some people, admitting their faults or shortcomings is one of the hardest things that they can do, because for them to admit that they have sinned is to admit that they are wrong. 

I can remember one time back when I was in elementary school that someone in the class had done something wrong, either broken something or tampered with something and the teacher asked who did it but no one came forward and confessed. And because no one confessed to what had happened, the entire class had to miss out on an activity that we were going to do that day. Whoever did it didn’t want to receive the punishment that would have come along with the wrong that they had done.

Admitting that you are a sinner is one of the first steps that a person needs to take as a new Christian. When someone confesses their sins to the Lord, they realize the fact that they have made a mistake and that they need God’s forgiveness to be made right with Him.

It takes humility and meekness to admit that you are a sinner and need to change something in your life. Before we become Christians, it is hard sometimes to admit to yourself that you are not perfect and that you need help to overcome your problems. But that is what we need to do in order to be forgiven for our sins. 

Unless a person confesses their sins and comes forward for forgiveness, how can they be forgiven? It is such a simple thing, to say, “I am a sinner, I confess my sins, please forgive me.” But because of the pride in a person’s life they refuse to admit that they have sinned and need forgiveness. It is so sad that people let their pride stand in the way of forgiveness and eternal life. 

Proverbs 28:13, “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”

Paul was quick to admit that he was a sinner. In 1 Timothy 1:15, Paul wrote that he was the chief of sinners. But he confessed his sins to the Lord and was forgiven for all that he had done wrong in his life. 

We all have sinned. Confess your sins to the Lord, and He will forgive you.

1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Let’s think about these things for right now.  We can be found on your web browser by Google searching,  tlkjbc  where you can find our diaries distributed through various platforms, or by getting our entire podcast feeds directly, along with transcripts at tlkjbc.com, or I suppose, you can find us somewhere up here, in the Great Northern Minnesota woods.  Lord willing, we will talk with you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye bye everybody.