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hat is essential to spiritual vital- signifying that to confess means to agree
ity? What is a priority when it with the charge brought against oneself.
Wcomes to the closeness of our It is to acknowledge guilt before the
walk with our heavenly Father? One of court. We understand the importance of
the main and often neglected facets of a confession with regards to relationships
healthy Christian life is confession. As a amongst friends and family. If we have
believer, one may contest, “Aren’t my sins offended them, we need to tell them and
no longer a concern, no longer a burden seek forgiveness so that the relationship
to carry?” It is true, by God’s grace, that can be restored. How much greater is the
once one has trusted in Christ and has importance of confessing our sin to the
come into the blessing of the forgiveness Most High God in order to restore the
of sins, there is “no condemnation to those closeness of that spiritual relationship.
who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom 8:1). But The daily confession of our sins to God is
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now, without fear of punishment and important for a number of reasons.
condemnation, a believer must be very Confession Reveals
conscious of the necessity for the confes-
sion of sins. Yet what does it really mean One of the reasons we find confession to
to confess our sins? be so difficult and why it is often lacking
The word “confess” is used in different on a regular basis in the life of a believer
contexts within the New Testament. The is that it requires us to acknowledge that
Greek word used is homologeō, which car- we are still sinners. For anyone to ever
ries numerous applications, but the root claim they have no need of confession to
idea means “to acknowledge.” It draws God is to declare, “I no longer sin!” That
from the application in the legal system, would go directly against what Scripture
declares of the believer. First John 1:8 says,
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the
NKJV. ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” We

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