May 25th, 2023

If you are trapped in secret sin you are living in a nightmare world of shame and guilt. You are not the person your family and friends think you are. You live in constant fear that your duplicity will be discovered. Where once there burned a holy fire now there is only ashes. Well did David say, “When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder…The pressure never let up; all the juices of my life dried up” (Psalm 32:3-4 MSG). Is there any hope for you? Yes, but only if you will do what David did.

“[He] said, “I’ll come clean about my failures to God.”
Suddenly the pressure was gone—
my guilt dissolved,
my sin disappeared.”

— Psalm 32:5 (MSG)

Forgive us, Lord, and change us. Amen.