THOUGHT: Confession #2

The ongoing considerations of confession.

The word confession has slowly faded almost to non-existence. The concept of sin faded also. Apparently both of these concepts are too hard for human beings to deal with and they were credited with psychological breakdowns. Sin is a bad concept because it produces guilt, and guilt is apparently, "self-negating" or "self-deprecating." That is bad. We don't feel good then. Now no need for confession cuz there is nothing to confess, I haven't done anything wrong.

Blindness does not remove reality. It just doesn't see it. The damage is still there and still growing.

That kind of callousness to sin and guilt needs to be cleared out of our lives with some tears. Tears of remorse. Tears of regret. Tears of humility. Tears of need. Tears of revelation. Tears of confession.

People who confess NEED to do it. We don't like to need to do anything that we don't want to.

People who NEED anything are weak. We don't like to be weak.

Sin is serious. It requires a serious response. Those tears remind us that it is important, essential, critical, required, necessary to have a clean relationship with God.

Those tears remind us that God is important...and serious.

Real tears also help us to communicate our sorrow and remorse to God. That is praying in words that we cannot speak...tears.

The self-sufficient see God as a mere topic of discussion.

Therefore, only the needy really have a God. To believe in God is to see yourself as both sinful and needy. Why is this important? For this reason: the needy confess.

Do you need God?

I am pretty sure that I do.

g-ram