God's Indescribable Gift of Forgiveness

What a great morning of worship yesterday! It is always a privilege seeing you all praise our Savior collectively, but yesterday was very special to me. Something that we don't do enough, and I take the blame for this one, is collectively confess our sins to the Lord. It sounds morbid and depressing, but confession is a key component to understanding the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Imagine that I was sick and I had to go to the doctor. Upon examination, the doctor decides that they need to rush me into the operating room as quickly as possible to perform surgery but he never tells me why they are going to operate. After the surgery, I wake up and feel a lot better, but I end up just kind of shrugging my shoulders and saying thanks to the surgeon. 

I don't recognize the weight of what he did! If I would have know that I was about to die and he performed a very difficult surgery to save my life, I would have woken up and ran to give him a hug! I would have realized the weight of what he had done for me and thanked him accordingly.

This is what confession does. It allows us to see the weight of our "sickness" and realize the beauty and power of Jesus' life giving power through his death and resurrection. As a community of faith, let's continually confess our sins. Because when we do, we will see the beauty of God's indescribable gift of forgiveness.