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“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
“And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing” (Leviticus 5:5).
Even though we have a new life in Christ and want to please the Lord, sometimes we fail, and allow a sin in our lives. Then we are told that if we confess our sins, the Lord will forgive us. This is not the same as getting saved, for we never need the blood of Christ applied to us again, but rather the Lord forgives us in order to restore us to happy fellowship with Him.
However, our second verse for today is important too, for it is easy to confess our sin in a general way without being specific about it. When we confess our sin to the Lord, He wants us to say that we have sinned “in that thing.” Of course, He already knows how we have sinned and exactly what we have done, but we need to get to the root of the problem, and not just to say that we have sinned. Naming the sin when we confess it drives the point home to our souls, and allows the Lord to cleanse us “from all unrighteousness,” so that we are not so apt to do it again.
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