unconfessed sin...

psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

I think as we become more mature in Christ... we let go of many of the sins that we used to do... you know... the obvious sins... and then we feel like we have come so far from who we used to be... that we are good... and we don't worry any more about confessing our sins before God...

for me personally... if I fell back and went out and got drunk... I would come back to God and confess this and ask forgiveness... or whatever the sin might be... drunk is just the most realistic outward sin for me to fall in to... as jack daniels and I have a long standing relationship that I miss badly when upset...

but what about the sins that we cover up... what about the sins that we make excuses for... are we confessing those? seeems to me.. if we are covering them up... or making excuses for them, then we are not acknowledging them and probably not confessing them to God...

recently... I had an issue where I decided something was not sin... mostly because I didn't want it to be... but I felt a change in the atmosphere between me and God... and then I listen on the radio (internet actually...) to my non playing friend John MacArthur... who never ever confuses what sin is and is not... (anything that does not bring glory to God is sin...) and I had to go before God and confess... now this was not something open and out loud... just something in me... in my heart... and although I didn't show it to anyone... it didn't make it any less sinful...

I have decided... that I am going to ask God to point out to me any thing in me that is not of Him... not just to empty me of it... but to show it to me... so that I can acknowledge it and confess it... accept forgiveness and get past it...

I do not want to have sin separating me from God... I do not want to have God not hear my prayer because of the unconfessed sin in me... I need Him too much to allow there to be issues in our relationship... I love Him to much to allow myself to disappoint Him intentionally...

change me God. make me into the person that you have created me to be in all areas of my life. in Jesus name I ask this... amen.amen.amen.