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ome people love a fixer upper each day with unconfessed sin. The tre-
project. Maybe it’s just the front mendous breadth of God’s goodness is
Sfence, a cupboard off its hinges, or displayed in His desire for reconciliation.
the one board on the deck that everyone He wants the wayward son to confess that
is always in danger of falling through. sin and leave it behind. “If we confess our
Oftentimes, we leave those projects pend- sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us
ing, untouched, on the to-do list. We think, our sins and to cleanse us from all un-
It’s just a little hole, just a little bit of paint, righteousness” (1Jn 1:9). This confession
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or just a few nails and a couple of screws. to God is to be a daily thing in our lives.
While it can be true that putting off these However, when we come to the need to
small projects won’t cause any real long- confess our sins to one another, oftentimes
lasting damage to anyone, sometimes that it gets set on the back burner, on the “to-
mindset can dangerously carry over into do” list along with fixing the back porch
other aspects of life. How many relation- or pulling out the weeds. Scripture is clear
ships in our lives have been damaged about the necessity of confessing our sins,
because of an unmended fence? The peel- not only to God but also to one another.
ing paint of a neglected friendship can
lead to further damage if left untouched. Confession to Those Whom We
Many relationship problems can be traced Have Wronged
back to this same starting point: a lack of
acknowledgement and lack of confession The quickest – and biblical – path to
of the harm caused. restoring a fractured relationship between
believers is for the wrong to be confronted
The Word of God clearly demonstrates between the two affected parties and for
the importance of confession with regards acknowledgement (confession) to take
to our relationship with God. The close-
ness we have with our heavenly Father 1 Bible quotations in this article are from the
is greatly affected if we walk around NKJV.

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