Confession of Sin

Sally sits in the fourth row next to her fourteen-year-old daughter, Cindy. Sally is very aware of how the world has magnetized the attention of her daughter in the past year or so and is very concerned. She and Cindy have talked a hundred times about true identity, true character, and true beauty. But the battle is far from over. Cindy doesn’t seem to be “getting it.” What can Sally do?

Bill is a long standing member with very important responsibilities in the church he serves. He is increasingly aware that he simply isn’t attracted to his wife anymore. He wonders why he ever married her and what would happen if friends in the church knew. He hasn’t told a soul. Where can he turn?

Jim had planned to serve the Lord in some way since he was a little boy, but now that he’s a teenager, his parents drive him crazy. He spends much of his time at home, isolated and angry. Who will help him?

Karen (26 years old) has just sung “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” but she wonders where God was when she was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. The weekly prayers for “the sick in our midst,” even when she is mentioned by name, seem far away and general—even cliché. What if God doesn’t heal her and the Arthritis slowly kills her? What about her eroding trust that God is good?

There may be many in our midst who are struggling with the trials, testings, and temptations the sinful world we live in daily throws at us. What are we to do? We wonder if God has left us alone in a scary lonely world. But God has promised that he will never leave us, nor will he forsake us. He is bigger than our largest problem and because he loves us he will be with us through the greatest and the smallest. This reminds us to confess our sins.