Secret Faults & Presumptuous Sins-from Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power

Psalms 19:12-14

Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. ¹³ Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless,
and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power…

Wow, can you believe Thanksgiving is around the corner? Whew, grab your coffee and come on in before it gets here! We are going to move on to the joyful reward of our WOW!

Oh, how thankful I am that God is a God of great mercy, forgiveness and recognizes Godly sorrow, a contrite heart empty of pride. For so many years, because of the way I was loved as a child, the example I had of an earthly dad, I projected those ways onto my Heavenly Father, and those projections worked like clogs in my pipe leading to my heart. It was definitely a process that unclogged the pipe and has given me a healthier perspective of just how unconditional, unchanging His love for you and for me is!

That’s what this last part of our WOW talks about, being accounted as blameless and free from transgressing, in other words going back to those secret faults and presumptuous sins. Sounds easy, huh? But do you see David’s words before he talks of what the victory looks like?
Let them not have dominion over me … then …. But what does “dominion” mean? It means domain and supreme authority. In other words, let these secret faults and presumptuous sins not take up all this space in my head for then they travel to the heart and pick up speed and power to rule our life!

In David’s case, his presumptuous sin led to another and another, so they were leading his life so how does one break free? It didn’t just happen with a snap of his fingers, and poof, his tendencies were gone! He sought the Lord over and over again and we read in Psalm 51 one of the most beautiful writings of Godly sorrow and repentance. It took him over nine months to push back the soil of his heart that had covered up his secret faults and presumptuous sins, but then, when the un-rooting took place, he was free … blameless.

I must say, though that up to this major detour that he took, and after his repenting, he was and continues to be known as a man after God’s heart! Could that be why his process to freedom was only nine to ten months?

Life has revealed and proven, and not just in my case, that the more unhealthy and dysfunctional things heaped upon us as children, the longer we keep God at a distance; therefore, the more confused and blind we become to the reality of the necessity of God. It stands to reason, therefore, that the process can take longer because the lies we buy into for all those years have blinded us to truths that He sends our way through others, through circumstances, through the Bride of Christ … His hands and feet. In other words, for many, it is a process because that which we’ve learned needs to be burned in the Refiner’s Fire!

Godly sorrow releases us from blaming others for our secret faults and presumptuous sins and casts light on the why, freeing us to move on to the how to not allow them to have dominion … to be blameless!

Cheering you on in the journey toward freedom in Christ …trusting and knowing with my whole heart that He who begun that work in you, and in me, is gonna be faithful to complete it … until we see Him face to face!

That’s a wrap for this month’s WOW!
Love,

Evinda

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Power Friday at Chicklit Power

Thanks so much for joining me for our Power Friday at Chicklit Power. Grab your coffee and come on in.

This week’s power thought comes from a real-life situation and as my husband and I listened to the details, I think both our hearts squeezed with sorrow. At first we were hopeful hearing that our friend had received a confession and thereby some sort of validation. I held my breath as our friend relayed the details of what had transpired leading up to the confession and then what happened after. It’s what happened right after the so-called confession that hope went out the window. It became very apparent that the reason for the confession was really for the sake of the one confessing. This is definitely another co-dependent trait, symptom, whatever you want to call it!

Don’t get me wrong; none of us have a camera into this person’s heart, but the person receiving this confession didn’t feel the relief and hope that often a confession can bring.

It really made me stop and think: Why do we confess when we do? Is it because we are genuinely sorry for the wrong/hurt it caused, or because we need to get it off our shoulders so we can feel better? That’s where this power thought comes from.

“A confession coming from Godly sorrow has the power to heal both the offended and the offender, but a self-seeking confession doubles the wound.”

Thoughtfully,

Evinda