{"id":2628,"date":"2019-09-02T23:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2019-11-15T22:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:50:25","slug":"confession-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Confession of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is too easy\u00a0for believers to take a light view of confessing our sin. It’s true that the confession of sin is taking God’s side against ourselves.\u00a0 It is true that confession is saying about our own sin the same thing God says about it, but there is a deeper element to confession of sin. The deeper element is searching our own heart. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The difference between confessing sin and searching the heart is kinda like the difference between tilling or plowing the ground. Tilling is dealing with the surface.\u00a0 Plowing is going deep and turning the ground over.<\/p>\n

The surface part of confession is recognizing our sin when it happens.\u00a0 The turning over of the ground, the plowing part, is recognizing that there is a deeper root problem within that produces the surface sin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, when we get angry about something, what produces that anger?\u00a0 I’m not talking about righteous anger.\u00a0 I’m talking about the thing that pulls our trigger.\u00a0 Are we proud or impatient?\u00a0 Are we prone to road rage?\u00a0 Are we judgmental and condescending?\u00a0 Are we biased toward others?\u00a0 We should be asking God to show us what produces our anger.<\/p>\n

Is it enough to till it under by naming it as sin?\u00a0 If we are hungering and thirsting after righteousness, we will plow the depths to find the root cause for that particular sin.\u00a0 What bubbles to the surface should be called what it is, but there should also be a concern about what is producing the bubbles down deep in the heart.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am convinced that we take for granted our thought patterns.\u00a0 Why do we think the way we do?\u00a0 Is it because for as long as we can remember it has been this way?\u00a0 What settled that thought pattern?\u00a0 Was it the culture?\u00a0 Was it something that grandma or grandpa always said?\u00a0 Was it an attitude fostered in our community or in our school or church?\u00a0\u00a0 Is it the result of family pride?\u00a0\u00a0Is it a biblical thought pattern?<\/p>\n

Plowing the depths is indicative of a hunger and thirst for\u00a0 righteousness.\u00a0 Judicially Christians stand justified before God dressed in the righteousness of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 As we experience spiritual growth and practical righteousness, we should find ourselves increasingly concerned about how indwelling sin affects our deepest motives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:\u00a0<\/em>And see if\u00a0there be any\u00a0wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.\u00a0 Psalm 139:23&24<\/em><\/p>\n

…let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is too easy\u00a0for believers to take a light view of confessing our sin. It’s true that the confession of sin is taking God’s side against ourselves.\u00a0 It is true that confession is saying about our own sin the same thing God says about it, but there is a deeper element to confession of sin. … Continue reading Confession of Sin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}