The New Life

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XI.
THE CONFESSION OF SIN.
" If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to for*
give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."—
X John i. 9.
THE
one thing that God hates, that grieves Him,
destroy, is sin,
that He is provoked by, and that He will
The one thing that makes man un-
The one thing for which Jesus had
happy, is sin.^
to give His blood was sin. In all the intercourse betwixt
the sinner and God, this is thus the first thing
that the sinner must bring to his God— sin.
When you came to Jesus at first, you perceived this
in some measure. But you should learn to understand
this lesson more deeply. The one counsel concerning
sin is, to bring it daily to the only One who
can take it away—God Himself. You should learn
that one of the greatest privileges of a child of God
is—the confession of sin. It is only the holiness of
God that can consume sin ;
through confession I
must hand over my sin to God, lay it down in God,
get quit of it to God, cast it into the fiery oven of
God's holy love which burns against sin like a fire,
iQen. vi. 5, 6 ; Isa. xliii. 24 ;
E)zek. xxxiii. 6 : Rev. vi. 16, 17.
sjudg. X. 10, 15, 16 ;
2 Chron. xvii. 14; Ezra ix. 6 ; Neh. ii. 33,
i*' 2, 33 ; Jer. ilL 21, 25 ; Dan. ix. 4, s. 20.
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