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Posted on 07/02/2019 5:59:58 PM PDT by luvie
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Bible in a Year : Job 25–27; Acts 12
Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. Psalm 32:5
My three-year-old grandson’s day was off to a rotten start. He couldn’t find his favorite shirt. The shoes he wanted to wear were too hot. He fussed and fumed at his grandmother and then sat down to cry.
“Why are you so upset?” I asked. We talked for a while and after he calmed down, I gently inquired, “Have you been good for Grandma?” He looked thoughtfully at his shoes and responded, “No, I was bad. I’m sorry.”
My heart went out to him. Instead of denying what he had done, he was honest. In the following moments we asked Jesus to forgive us when we do wrong and to help us do better.
In Isaiah 1, God confronts His people about wrongs they’d committed. Bribes and injustice were rampant in the courts, and orphans and widows were taken advantage of for material gain. Yet even then God responded mercifully, asking the people of Judah to confess what they’d done and turn from it: “Come now, let us settle the matter . . . . Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (Isaiah 1:18).
God longs for us to be open with Him about our sins. He meets honesty and repentance with loving forgiveness: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Because our God is merciful, new beginnings await!
What sins have you not been honest with God about? What’s holding you back from confessing them to Him?
Abba, Father, help me to turn away from the sin in my life and make a new beginning with You today.
10 out of 10, although two questions were virtually the same.
Hi Luv. Sez here this week that I didn’t bowl a strike.
You got 9 out of 10 answers correct!
That’s an almost perfect score! Well done!
I got 9 of 10 but it didn’t tell me which one I missed. Probably the one about the ship. I said “Ice Cream Maker” which I sort of knew was wrong but none of them seemed likely.
10 for 10!
(Actually, it’s pretty easy.)
Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))
You got 10 out of 10 answers correct!
Wow! Got 10 out of 10 right.
10/10 Correct.
Also got 100% on JEOPARDY! tonight.
that was weird, wasn’t it?
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
You got 9 out of 10 answers correct!
That's an almost perfect score! Well done!
9 out of 10. Though some it was more trivia than history. “What Boston based TV show premiered on September 30, 1982?” Not really history in my mind.
They were! I guess they wanted non-patriots to at least get one right. LOL!
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