To CONFRONT and CONFESS our sin and life issue is a must. It is one of the steps in returning back to God. Moses wanted the Israelites to realise the sin so he confronted them by taking the calf that they made, burned it, grounded it, scattered it on the water and made them drink it – may I call this The Golden Calf Juice! YUCK! That was a profound confrontation of Moses. He was brave. The sin of the Isalites was great so the confrontation must be great too in order to make them realise that “HEY dudes … you just did a great sin”
We are to confront sin and error of our life based on the Word of God and to confront, it requires us to first recognise a sin. If we don’t recongnise a sin, be sure that one day God himself will make us realise or he will use his people to come and confront us just like how He used Moses to confront the Israelites as above, and how He used Nathan to confront David when he failed into sexual immorality. Are we brave enough to confront and/or to be confronted either by God or by man with our sin?
After the confrontation, now it is time to confess! This is a harder bit! We are to confess our to sin to God and to right peopole ie. leader,spiritual mentor. To confess to God is easier than to confess to man, agree with me? Aaron didn’t confess with Moses that he was the one who made the golden calf, he told the half truth (this is after Moses made the people drink the golden calf juice)! Because of Aaron half-truth confession, God decided to remove His presence away from them. And we know how scary it is that God can still give us His presents whilst removing His presence.
I did confess my sin to God and to the right people before. But I a little regret after I done it because after I did the confession, It seems to set me back. It seems that the confession takes me longer into a leadership. I had this thought for a long while. Recently, God spoke to me through a person whom I confessed this sin to, he encouraged me and told me that I did the right thing. He appreciated my honestly and confession and he told me that God will bring me very far because of my true accountability. He spoke right to the point that the true confession may seem to set me backward in my journey with God but the issue need to be dealed right now because it is much more painful to deal with it when I am a leader.
I just want to thank God for His affirmation through this brother. I believe when I do the right thing in God’s eyes, no matter what the outcome may be, it is still the right thing in God’s eyes. So just do it!
Don’t wait until God brings us The Golden Calf Juice, confront and confess our sin to God and the right people today!
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