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The Power of Christian Confession
Confession to God and someone we trust is a powerful tool that Christians can use to reach for God’s forgiveness and healing.
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. Psalm 32: 1–5
The Boy, The Witch, And Turkish Delight
In C.S. Lewis’s beloved book The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, a boy named Edmund meets a queen who is actually an evil sorceress, the White Witch. She tries to trick him into revealing information about his siblings with delicious hot chocolate and Turkish Delight.
When Edmund cannot tell the White Witch what she wants to know, she throws him in prison. Suddenly, he is miserable in a cold, stark place. He longed for Turkish Delight but was only given stale bread to eat.
Sin is like that. It starts out to be Turkish Delight and ends up as stale bread in prison. Sin is toxic to us. If we don’t confess it, our bones will waste away, and we will groan all day long (Psalm 32: 2–7). Our life will be like a hot summer day that saps all of our energy.
Jesus said that the greatest commandments are to love God with all our might and love our neighbor as ourselves. These commands form the laws and principles for…
