“Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, ‘I will confess my rebellion to the LORD.’ And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.” Psalm 32:5
Years ago, a talk show segment featured the story of a little dog named Muggsy who had been hit by a car and was presumed dead by his owners. His grieving family buried him in a corner of their yard. But the next morning at 5:30, there was a scratching at their back door. Much to the family’s surprise, it was their beloved Muggsy. Apparently, he was not dead after all. The persistent pup dug himself out of his grave.
That is what unconfessed sin is like. We may think we have buried it, but it will be back. There is only one way to get rid of our sin, and it is at the cross of Jesus Christ. We cannot cover it. We cannot hide it. And we cannot run from it. It will stay with us until we confess it.
After his sin of adultery and murder, David eventually admitted to God that he had sinned. Later he wrote about it in Psalm 32: “When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long” (verse 3 NLT). David continued, “Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, ‘I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.’ And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone” (verse 5 NLT). He did not try to blame someone else for his sin. He did not try to hide it at this point. Rather, David called it what it was, and he dealt with it in a straightforward way. We always want to blame others for our sin and say that it is not our fault.
Do you need to own up to something you have done? Or are you playing the blame game? There must come a point in your life when you say, “I have sinned. I have committed this iniquity. The problem is me.” And that is when things will change for you.
