Fellowship with God

Fellowship with God

Confession is part of Jesus' model prayer in Matthew 6. Each part of His prayer is important and must be included as part of our prayers, if we want to experience the fullness of the personal relationship with our Lord.

After worship, surrender and asking that our daily needs to be met, Jesus said to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we have forgiven those who trespass against us." Some translations say debts. But both debts and trespasses are polite words for sins.

Knowing He would die on the cross as the once-and-for-all sacrifice for our sins, that His blood would make atonement for us with our Holy God, that we would be justified in Him so that no one could ever separate us from his love, why would Jesus tell us we must continually confess our sins?

It is not our salvation that is at stake if we are God’s children, but our fellowship. Let's make it a practice to examine our hearts and confess our sins day by day. David's words in Psalm 139:23-24 express this so well.

"Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life."
 
Pray with us now -- Lord, deliver us from not taking sin seriously, from the idea that Your love overrules Your holiness. Help us to confess when we sin so that we can maintain sweet fellowship with You. Amen.




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