What Are You Hiding From?
Proverbs 23:18 He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
What are you ashamed of? What is it that eats at your conscience? What are you hiding from God and others? Shame doesn’t just involve mistakes you have made, but it can be mistakes that others have made toward you. Many people struggle with walking in their new nature because they were wounded in the past and have never brought it out in the open so they can find mercy. When we try and hide ourselves from the Lord mercy isn’t found. The enemy doesn’t just want you to sin, he wants you to hide your sin so that you live in shame and never prosper. God wants you to confess your sin so that He cans poor out His mercy in your life. Oh how we need the mercy of God. I’ve done some terrible things and people have done terrible things to me. If it weren’t for the mercy of God I would be living a secret life of guilt and anger. When I was younger, my family went through a very difficult time. A man in ministry was trying to hurt my family. I grew extremely angry with him and I secretly wanted to harm this man. One evening I finally got what I wanted, the man injured himself and I found myself happy about it. What an awful place to find yourself! Angry, bitter, and all because I kept my anger to myself. If I would have just turned the situation over to God, I would have found the mercy necessary to deal with anger I felt. One evening I finally sat down with my dad and told him how I was feeling and I can’t describe the weight that was lifted off my shoulders. I didn’t just feel better about myself; I felt the mercy of God poured out in my life like I had never known. You can know His mercy…confess and find it!
