isaiah from proverbs 28

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

I confess to God almighty, before the whole company of heaven, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned in thought, word, and deed, and pray God Almighty to have mercy on me.

To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.

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It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

We know mistakes were made.

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We repeat what we don’t repair.

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If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

The psalmist describes the experience of “keeping silent” about sin as a kind of disintegration. His bones turn to powder (Ps. 32:3). His energy dissipates, “the very pith of my body decomposed as if ...