Learning From Our Mistakes

 

“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.”

—James 5:16a

Confession is difficult for most people. Admitting that we’re wrong or that we’ve made a mistake is hard.

But failing to confess does serious damage to a person’s heart and mind. If we fail to acknowledge the sins we have committed, over time our hearts become hardened and our minds become numb to wrong doing.

It takes determination, humility, self-awareness, and an openness to the leading of the Holy Spirit to become a person who readily confesses sins.

The Apostle James writes about the value of confession in James 5:16:

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Let this new day begin by wiping the slate of our hearts and minds clean from the sins we’ve committed. Let us turn to God and confess our sins to Him. And, let us ask those we may have sinned against to forgive us, even as with move from confession to repentance to restitution, and finally, to restoration.

We’ll be much better off if we do so.

 

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