Originally posted on Facebook on Saturday, December 10, 2022.

God is dealing with me.

When we read the Bible, we can have a tendency to see characters that we like to think of ourselves as, such as a Mary, Peter or Paul, but God has been revealing to me that I'm often the Pharisee.

I'm thankful.

The Word is Light that reveals sin: values, positions, ideas and behavior that prevent me from fully knowing and enjoying God. I should not shrink back but come fully into the light to be completely exposed so I can identify the things I need to forsake and surrender to God.

God doesn't reveal these things to condemn me but so that I can confess the corruption of my heart and come to Him to be healed.

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." -1 John 1:9

Right now, God is dealing with me on my love of the world and money. Those things are preventing me from fully knowing and enjoying Him –the only One who is truly good and the only One that truly satisfies (James 1:16-17). I repent and to the extent that He reveals it, I'm laboring to follow after Christ, seeking the Kingdom, forsaking the world and my life in it (more on this later).

Don't cover up. Confess. Come to a loving Father who's heart is to cleanse and restore you, not crush you.

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