Covering Ups Are Our Downfalls

-September 16, 2024-

Good morning beloved, happy Monday,

“He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”

(Proverbs 28:13).

It all started in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and sinned against Him. Innocence was forever lost. They felt guilt for the time, but instead of turning to God, they hid themselves from God among the trees of the garden. Hence, the first ever cover up.

The first couple also sewed fig leaves and covered their nakedness. Ever since sin has caused people to hide from God and come up with own ways to of salvation. Only the the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse our hearts from sin. He died for our sins to forgive us from our sins.

Solomon wrote, “He who covers his sins will not prosper…” His father David went through this himself in his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband Uriah. No believer cannot continue in unconfessed sin without God’s heavy hand coming upon him or her.

God loves us too much to let us go. He is so gracious, merciful, and forgiving toward us. We just need to confess our sin, repent, and turn back to the Lord. When we come to Him, He will restore us.

Sin takes a huge toll in the believer. We are cut off from the sweet fellowship with the Father, we lose the peace of God, and it can affect us spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. We can lose everything, but never our salvation.

Look at what David went through, He said, “When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer” (Psalm 32:3-4). He finally said in Psalm 32:5, “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.”

The last part of our text is the solution for us: “but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” God will always shower us with mercy and forgiveness, just as the father did in the Parable if the Prodigal Son. John wrote in 1 John 1:9, “But if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

As soon as we become aware we have sinned, let us confess it, forsake it, repent of it, and fall upon the mercy of our Heavenly Father. He will restore our fellowship, peace and fellowship. Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

Confession is good for the soul, and absolutely essential.

Dean