Saturday, May 31, 2008

THOUGHT: Confession #5

still about the confession are you?

Adam and Eve's era of open communication with God was, well, rather short lived.

While the actual time it took for Adam & Eve to sin is unknown, what we do know is that for us it is usually only a matter of minutes between mess-ups. We rarely put temptation at a distance--we stay too close, we like to linger around that tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil. All around us we see the evidences of that last mess-up, oh yeah and the one before it. Hey look over there...more evidence of my transgressions.

Our only hope is confession.

Confession is the courageous step of putting the partially eaten fruit down, looking at it with God and agreeing that the fruit has our teeth marks in it. This, though, is not easy to do. Who among us likes to stand before the King of righteousness and admit both error and our need?

Nope, not easy at all. In fact, that leads us to the next problem and the next development.

later

g-ram

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