TO WHOM DO WE CONFESS?

by Rev. Ernest O'Neill

 

I wonder if there are any of us here who make a kind of thing out of confession and we feel "Oh, if there's any problem in my relationship with God it's because I haven't confessed the sins that I committed against different people." Well, the psalmist said it, you know, "Against thee, and thee only have I sinned and done this wrong."  Confession, loved ones is going to our Savior Jesus and confessing to him.  It's saying, "Lord Jesus I didn't know that this was destroying you, I didn't know this was crucifying you again, I didn't know that every time I was sarcastic with my wife, it was like a whip lash across your face, I didn't know that. I didn't know Lord that when I swore, that that was like a sword in your side, I am sorry. I confess this. I did not know it. I agree with you Lord, I see that this is what makes it impossible for you to be real in me. Every time you rise up inside me, I crucify you again and destroy you, I confess that to you."

Loved ones, could it be that you "search conviction" because you think that in that you have eternal life? Could it be that you search confession because you think that in that you have eternal life but you will not come to him that you might have life? Confessing sins is confessing personally to Jesus, the Son of God, the one by whom you were made, that's who Jesus is. By him, all things were made and without him was not anything made that was made. It's confessing to him that you have been crucifying him again in your life.

 

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