don’t fear confession

why are we afraid to press fully into the confession of our sin?

It seems to me because there is pain there. Our failure is there. Our darkness. And who wants to face the fact that we are the villain in the story when we so badly want to be the hero?

And while this is true, while there is still a darkness in us that gives birth to sin that needs to be confessed, while it’s true that could be an obstacle, (because who wants to face that) I wonder if the reason we struggle so with confession is because we don’t think about what else we will find there, before our Father.

Namely, we’ve forgotten that we will find an assurance of our pardon.

You see, dear reader, the beauty of confession as followers of Jesus
is that we go to our knees failures,
but we rise to our feet forgiven.
And we have to do the one,
to be the other.

So don’t fret over confession. Don’t fear facing your sin.
Because of Jesus, his blood brings your salvation, and you WILL rise a new human.

Confess your sins to God

O Lord, as long as I am apart from you, I am self-satisfied, because I have no standard by which to measure my low stature. But when I come near to you, there for the first time I see myself. In your light I behold my darkness. In your purity I behold my corruption. My very confession of sin is the fruit of holiness.

Oh! Divine Man, let me gaze on you more and more until, in the vision of your brightness, I loathe the sight of my impurity; until, in the blaze of that glory which human eye has not seen, I fall prostrate, blinded, broken, to rise a new man in you. Amen.
(George Matheson)

Receive these words of comfort from God

In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

In him we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
(Ephesians 1:4-7)