Reset

A sermon from Octoer 2008 was on confession as a spiritual discipline. The presenter had many good points, and they are available on the net if you wish to find them. But I came away with a slightly different take.

What is confession? Confession is a reset of your soul.

I like the PDA - personal digital assistant. I keep my calendars on them, games, documents, pictures. Just a little computer to me. Every once in a while something gets funky in the programming and it stalls. I have to push a little button and reboot the whole system so it goes back to the original programming to run properly.

Confession is a reset for your soul.

Confession is mainly to God. Life has standards, we know them through our conscience and the law. But we are not sure what the true standards are? Should they be set by society? If measured by society, then why do I sense a reason to be guilty?

Our internal standards were set by the Creator. We sense life should work like X, but Y turns out. Life is all bogged down by fragments of an ill lived life. Sin leaves fragments of failure internally. Those are things Satan latches onto, they are his. Do you want to leave them in your soul?

Jesus declared to a man born blind "You are forgiven" and released the sin frags from his soul. Then he declared "You are healed" and released the illness that no longer had a hold on the man's eyes. This man, once blind and sin stained was now "reset" to God and the world.

James 5:16 "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed."