Confess

We must recognize our sin, name it for what it is and then seek to repent and be forgiven.  And we must do this daily.  This is our daily Bread- the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ.

Jas_5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

1Jn_1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Confess our faults.

Pray.

Be healed.

Confess our sins.

We can't hide our sins from God it is impossible. God knows what causes the separation between Him and every single person. Every single person has God's interest. Every single person has a record in heaven.

Rev_20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

There is a book of life and books we are judged out of. Judged according to our works, because our works are the actions we commit.  Judged, and the standard we are judged against is obeying or not obeying. What else is there to be judged against?  Do we LOVE or do we not love- this is the real standard.

If we can't see the Love of God in each moral commandment God gave to man, the four that reveal our love towards Him and the six that reveal our love towards each other, if we can't see that love we are spiritually blind.  If we are spiritually blind we need EYE SALVE so we may see!

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Blind- we need to buy of Christ Jesus our Savior eyesalve and anoint our eyes with that eyesalve so we can SEE!

Satan will blind us, he loves to blind us, to keep us in the dark concerning the love of God. As long as we do NOT see the love of God in the moral commandments we have no compunction beyond a fear of punishment to keep those commandments. We need the LOVE of God, this is the standard we are judged against.

Do we LOVE God? From that love do we live our lives?

Imagine loving another person and having everyone around fight you to not love them.  This scenario isn't a pleasant one, it's extremely difficult to choose to love one person over all the others in your life.  When we choose to love God we are choosing to enter an active Spiritual war and every spiritual evil will do all they can to keep you from that love of God. Loving God is NOT entering a life strife free. You are calling all the powers of darkness to war with you in a very real way. Loving God is amazing, His love beyond all we can truly imagine. His power is greater than all other power. We have to believe in the love of God fully, wholly, daily, always amidst the awful things big and tiny that the evil realm will throw at us.

We will be judged on the standard of God's loving law. And because HE knew and knows that we can't, based on our flesh nature, do this on our own, our SAVIOR- God in flesh- sacrificed Himself so that we may live. We are never to condone sin, but seek forgiveness constantly for the sins we commit, and our SAVIOR will forgive us and save us.  He can't save us from sins we refuse to confess.  He can't save us if we refuse to acknowledge we've broken the moral law of God and in doing so we have sinned.

When we sin it is known, never hidden, NEVER. 

When the time comes for people to stand before God, they will either be found in the book of life, or the record of their decisions not to choose love over evil- all found in their unconfessed sins- will be revealed to them. They'll know why they aren't in the book of life and there will be no trial, no chance to plead for yourself, the time for all that is during our entire accountable life. Every opportunity presented to choose love will be revealed, not hidden. Not a single person will be able to accuse God of falsifying the truth of their own choice not to serve Him, to not love.

We truly need to confess our sins, to recognize them for what they are, to realize they are reflections of our inability to love. When we confess we need to do so as we seek forgiveness from the only One who can give us that forgiveness, the One who died for us.

Please Savior, please help us to recognize our need to confess all sins to you, not try to cover them up or ignore them. Please.

All through YOUR LOVE! All this through YOUR LOVE!

Now and forever.

Amen!