CONFESSIONS

My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help.

This I know: God is on my side!

Psalm 56:9

There is a misconception that being a nice person is all we can aim for. Some obtain this through concentration on their churchianity. Some try turning their back on the nastiness of the past and make niceness their main aim. It is hard to work out the bad and good within ourselves. Ever since Adam and Eve fell for the notion of being 'as gods' and pulled away from the true God all of us have the same desire and are ready to try and achieve it. Self-reliance in deciding what is good and what is evil either achieves self-glorification or confusion which can cause us to turn to God. God directs us to the mirror, where we view of our ugly selves. beyond that view He shows us a view of the life-changing Saviour, Jesus Christ. In Romans 7:18, Paul says " I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.I want to do what is right, but I can’t" He made this confession knowing his need of Jesus Christ. Like Paul we too need to confess our inability to change on our own and put our trust in Jesus. Once we begin to call for God's help and keep turning to Him our lives begin to be transformed into the lives that He wanst us to live.

God can and will overcome all the hurdles that we face in recovery. But he requires that we confess our sins to Him. Not for His benefit but for ours - by speaking it we understand it and by understanding it we can know how to overcome it with His help.