Your Power Of Confession!
"For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
my vitality was turned into the drought of summer."
Psalm 32:4
California is a dry state that needs water to be transported
over the many miles to population and agricultural centers.
Snowfall in the winter and melting snow
in the spring have
been critical
factors in replenishing shrinking reservoirs. In
periods of modern droughts, aerial
photographs document
the receding water levels in the
reservoirs around the state,
with shorelines growing wider and drier as water levels fall.
Such is the picture David paints with his words in Psalm 32—
a drought of spiritual vitality brought on by his own sin. When
he failed and confess his sin to God, his “bones grew old” and
he groaned “all the day long” (verse 3). It was like his soul was
being evaporated by the heat of his own guilt and shame. But
then the rains of grace came and David confessed his sin and
God forgave him (verse 5). And he encouraged his readers
not to make the same mistake he had made (verses
9-10).
Confession and repentance reveal the access to restoration.
Hiding sin does not remove it from God’s sight; but when we
seek God’s forgiveness, the refreshing living water from the
Father is poured out on us and we are restored—that is the
power of confession.
"The way to cover our sin is
to uncover it by confession."
Richard Sibbes
