Admitting What's Wrong (4)
Thursday October 27, 2016
How does admitting and confessing our character defects bring about change in our daily living? Coming clean with God takes away the negative power of guilt and shame that the evil one continually seeks to throw at us. The devil’s only agenda is to destroy and steal life from us. His efforts against us will increase as we seek to walk in God’s ways. Through ongoing accusation and condemnation, he will seek to keep us from living the full, purposeful life God has planned for us.
God’s plan to counteract this ugly agenda? Get everything out in the open. Receive His forgiveness. Be prepared to remind the devil that God has taken care of all our wrongdoing through Jesus’ death on the cross.
My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. (1 John 2:1-2 NLT)
As we go forward in recovery we need to be consciously aware that God is on our side. We can claim complete forgiveness and restoration with confidence, when we know we have confessed our sins to God and received His forgiveness.
The devil delights to lie and accuse us by tempting us to sin. God’s plan to overcome the devil’s attacks–admit not only any wrong doing but continue to receive His forgiveness.
Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. (Revelation 12:10-11 NIV)
God’s ways may seem a bit strange in the beginning. The work of admitting our wrongs as a way to freedom over guilt and shame may not make much sense to us, but as we practice this principle in all our affairs, we will experience that it “works when we work it.”
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