Confess Your Sins!

“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.” Psalm 32:5

Have you ever played on “monkey bars” at a playground? When you reach up and grab that first bar, what is required for you to progress through the rest of the bars and reach the end? You need to let go of the bar behind you, and grab the one in front. If you didn’t let go, you wouldn’t be able to move forward.

In kind of the same way, let’s imagine that a boy comes into the house after trudging through a deep muddy puddle, boots all full of mud. But as soon as he enters the doorway, his mother stops him, and makes him take off his boots so that he doesn’t drag the mud all throughout the house. He has to take those boots, and leave them behind at the door, if he wants to enter into the house. 

Just like that child, we need to take our sins, and leave them behind. We need to forsake all those things that defile us, and come to Christ for forgiveness. We need to forsake and leave our sins behind us, and begin a new life living for Christ.

In order for a person to begin that new life, they need to do something first: they need to admit their faults, and confess them so that they can be forgiven.

Confession means “the open admission of having done something, especially something wrong or bad.” So when a person “confesses” their sins, It is the acknowlegement of a person’s mistakes and wrongdoings. That is the first step that a person has to take on the road to forgiveness.

Some people however don’t or won’t admit that they are sinners, and have sinned. They don’t want to change. They won’t let go of their sins, but if someone wants to receive the gift of eternal life someday, that is what they need to do. If we want forgiveness, we need to admit our sins, and it is then that we will receive mercy. 

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

I’m sure many of you know at least one person who is very stubborn or is hard to persuade to change something in their life. They don’t think that they need to change anything that they do. That is just like someone living in their sins, without Christ. They don’t think that they need to change, or need to repent. But the truth is that everyone has sinned, and we all need to confess our sins if we want to receive God’s mercy. 

God is full of mercy and forgiveness, and wants all people to repent and follow His Son Jesus. He wants everyone to confess their sins, so that they can receive that reward of eternal life. But it requires that a person lets go and turns from their sins. 

The Apostle Paul himself recongized that he was a sinner, and needed to let go of those sins to be forgiven. He even went so far as to call himself the “chief of sinners.” But he knew that any and all of those sins that he had done would be forgiven if he confessed them. 

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

It takes humility to admit that you are wrong, and need forgiveness. It requires that a person remove any and all pride out of their life. 

Forgiveness isn’t earned, it is given. There is no price that can be paid to attain forgiveness. It is free. The free gift of forgiveness. Leave your sins behind. Confess your sins, leave them “at the door” so that you may enter into the forgiving mercies of Christ. 

In Christ,

Andrew

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