“This is what I’ve learned through it all: All believers should confess their sins to God; do it every time God has uncovered you in the time of exposing. For if you do this, when sudden storms of life overwhelm, you’ll be kept safe. Lord, you are my secret hiding place, protecting me from these troubles, surrounding me with songs of gladness! Your joyous shouts of rescue release my breakthrough. Pause in his presence I hear the Lord saying, “I will stay close to you, instructing and guiding you along the pathway for your life. I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with my eyes as your guide. So don’t make it difficult; don’t be stubborn when I take you where you’ve not been before. Don’t make me tug you and pull you along. Just come with me!””
The key to a successful life and a clean conscience is keeping our hearts pure before the Lord. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice -- giving His life in place of ours. So why would we try to hide our faults and sins or carry them around because we don’t feel worthy to release them to Him? Someone once told me that it is actually great arrogance to hold onto the burden of our sin with the excuse that we are unworthy of forgiveness. Because if Jesus said it is finished. If He said, your sins are forgiven, who are we to argue with that? Is our sin greater than His love or sacrifice? Absolutely not. It’s not. He is always greater. So our job is to humble ourselves and give it to Him. And in doing so, we will experience the freedom that He bought for us. And then we can live in that freedom and follow His leading to the adventures and life He has for us. Life isn’t meant to be as hard as we sometimes make it. All we need to do is obey the Lord and follow His lead. It may not be easy, but it’s not complicated.
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