What Is True Confession And Repentance?
A man once confessed to his priest, “Father, forgive me for stealing a half load of hay last night . . . no, make it a whole load.” The priest said, “Which was it, a half load or a whole load?” The man replied, “Make it a whole load . . . I’m going back tonight for the other half.”
Confession is not genuine when you are planning to repeat the same sin again, a genuine believer never plans to sin, but trust God's plan to deliver himself from it through repentance and confession of it from the heart. The fiery John the Baptist thundered to people pointing them to repent of their sin, at the same time he challenged those who took baptism of repentance by saying to them to, “Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God" (Matthew 3:8 NLT).
We truly need a attitude of repentance daily and confession of our mistakes to God for our cleasing from it. Both repentance and confession are the two sides of the same coin which makes it a valid one.
In short, to err in sin is within the human nature, but to ask for forgiveness from God and maintaining an attitude to hate it and overcome it comes from divine nature only. So every person who commits sins, must confess to God desiring to overcome it and be free from the influence of Adamic nature of sin through the new nature of Christ. Though we cannot be free from sin one hundred percentage till we die physically as the Adamic nature will only leave us at that time, but this very attitude of godliness against sin will decide our motive in confessing our sins to God, and the reward we will get eternally for overcoming it through both the confession of sins and our sincere repentance.
Much Blessings...
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"God's punishment comes out of breaking of law, but the reward for keeping the law comes from the motive with which we keep it." — Abraham Israel
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