When you borrowed something from a friend and you broke it, are you going to tell that friend? Or are you just going to let him/her discover it? Are you going to come clean and confess that you broke his/her valuable thing or you’re just going to act like you did not do anything?
One of man’s nastiest assets is pride. We mostly do not care about anything other than preserving our pride. We hate it when we have to admit something and we hate it when people call us out because of something we did.
We tend to show our alpha-male-like attitude to every situation we face even if we know that most of the time it’s our fault. We refuse to accept the fact that we messed up but instead we put up a hard front to sway away from our mistakes.
However, the best way to clear misunderstandings is to confess your mistakes and make amends. This situation is also very similar to our spiritual life. We mostly do not accept and admit our sins because of our pride. We act like everything we are doing is acceptable and we do not like it when we are caught red-handed.
God is reminding us now that we should drop our prideful attitudes and confess our sins to Him because He is very faithful to forgive us. Instead of acting mighty and prideful, we should humble ourselves, confess our sins and ask for forgiveness.
Jesus Christ came to this world to offer us His unlimited forgiveness— a favor we never deserve. He died on the cross for all of us so we will not suffer the everlasting pain in hell. Jesus is so faithful and just that if we confess our sins and believe in Him, we will be forgiven and saved.
We can never repay God’s faithfulness and love and the only thing we can do is to pray that He will help us abandon our pride and instead put all our faith in Him. We must pray that He will give us the strength to confess everything to Him and that through Jesus Christ we can find redemption and forgiveness.
Let us stop our proud-alpha-male attitude and submit everything to Jesus. Let us all acknowledge that we sinned, confess it one by one to Jesus, repent, turn away from our sins and make amends. We must never forget that even if we are not faithful, our God is faithful and He loves us so much.
Acknowledge that you sinned, confess it one by one, repent, turn away from our sins and make amends!
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