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Confession
Readies Us for the Future.
Marital separation means that someone failed. Our
dreams before marriage have turned to nightmares. Our natural tendency is
to seek to place blame with our mates and to reason that if our mates
would change, our marriage would be restored. But if we apply the words of
Jesus in Matthew 7 to marriage it would read: "Why do you behold the
speck that is in your mate's eye, when, behold, there is a beam in your
own eye? First pull the beam out of your own eye, then you can see more
clearly how to get the speck out of your mate's eye."
Jesus said that we must begin with our own sin.
Whether that sin is large or small, it is the only sin that we can
confess. Confession means that we agree that we have failed. When we
confess our failures to God, He freely forgives us, because Christ has
paid our penalty. With His forgiveness, we are now free to take a new
approach to life. Confession is like coming home from a long journey and
finding God meet us with extended arms. Confession makes us ready to face
the future with Hope.
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