Step up to change

 

Text: 1John1:9 (KJV)

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

The truth is life on its own is filled with mistakes, but from the mistakes we should learn and grow more.  There is a saying “experience is the best teacher”. Those experiences may either be good or bad, and they are usually as a result of our decisions.  I tell you, making a mistake is not bad, but dwelling in that mistake is the problem because it is a step to change.  From the text above, we are told to confess our sins to God.  Amazingly, people are willing to admit their mistakes and faults, but due to them admitting those faults to the wrong people, it makes them go back to that mistake, and an error that is repeated more than twice has become a lifestyle. We need to cultivate the habit of confessing our mistakes and faults, basically sins to God. I tell you, sin is dirty, and it is what destroys our sweet fellowship with God. As believers who have accepted, believed, and confessed Christ, we have been given access by His grace, which we must treasure. Sometimes, we may fall out of His grace due to sin, but we need to confess to Him all our wrong doing and purify ourselves again by allowing Him to cleanse us. Psalms 51:2- Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Thankfully, we have a great privilege, and that is when we go astray and confess our sins to the master sincerely, He actually advocates on our behalf to the Father to forgive us as a step to change. 1 John 2:1- My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  This is a great privilege, but we should not take it for granted. Although we were born into this world with sin, but due to us accepting Christ as our Saviour, He has exchanged that Adamic nature and has given us a new garment. That means old things are passed away and behold all things have become new. Jesus did all of that on the cross by his bloodshed. So, I encourage us to confess those secret sins which we feel we are hiding from God.  He sees all and has forgiven us already therefore let us hide ourselves under the cross as we put on the garment of righteousness which is Jesus.

PRAYER POINTS:

1.Thank you Jesus because we have an advocate who is standing by us at all times, in Jesus name.

2. Father, we confess every unrepentant sin that the enemy is still holding against us, in Jesus name.

ACTION QUOTE: Accepting that mistake today is a step to our changing world.