Confess and Let God Deal with It

There will be those who attempt to deny that God has changed us. They want to intimidate us into silence by bringing up past sins or at least treating us with contempt because of our past sins, do not take this in to your soul

Those who would hold past sins against others must believe they have never sinned or they would not be so inclined as to accuse us of ours.

When we have been freed from the guilt of our past sins through confession and God's forgiveness, we no longer need to revisit those sins in our minds or listen to others who want to continually treat us as though there has been no change in us.

The devil uses wicked and unforgiven people to torment us with false guilt over something that no longer exists. Perhaps these people have not been forgiven and do not experience the joy of freedom from sin, therefore they must believe we are no better than they.

I have two encouragements, one for the believe and one for the non-believer who judges others based on past sin.

The first encouragement is for those who are believers and who have been cleansed of their sin. When we believe God, that He has cleansed us we no longer have to indulge in self pity or false guilt we can leave it where it belongs, that is in the past. We also have no obligation to keep in our lives those who wish to continually deny what Christ did in us. They will gossip, they will lie and they will treat us with contempt, but it can roll off like water off a ducks back. Remove yourselves from those who have nothing but destruction in mind for us through false guilt.

The second encouragement is for the lost person who holds sin against others. This person can be free from their sin too. They can confess their sin of self righteousness, pride and cruelty toward believers and become born again by asking the Lord to change them into a new creation. The one who accuses others of past forgiven sins remains in their sin until they confess it and are cleansed by Christ.

This is the good news for the unbeliever, they can be free of their damnable pride and thoughts of superiority simply by admitting what they are and asking to be cleansed.

Its all so very simple, the key is to just believe God.

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

The key is that one must confess the sin and want it dealt with by Christ.