Stop Carrying Those Secret Sins
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord ,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Psalms 32:1–5 ESV Read More
This exposes one of the great paradoxes of being a Christian that is hard for onlookers and insiders alike. The people that are righteous aren’t the people that do good deeds all of the time, but the people that have confessed their bad deeds and turned towards God. The happy person isn’t the one that keeps their sin a secret, but the one that lays them out before God.
Keeping silent about our failures and fears is enough to make our bones waste away. If you are in a group of trusted, close friends that are all pursuing Christ together, you can share those failures and fears. You can share them with others, share them with God, and share the burden and weight of your struggle.
The idea that people at church have it all together or always do right is a rip-off from the devil. People at church have just found a place to join with others that are growing in Christ to grow with each other.
C.S. Lewis talks about this paradox:
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means — the only complete realist.”
When you confess to Jesus and embrace His forgiveness, He turns your chaotic sin into peace.
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