The Dangers Of The Sin-Confess-Sin-Confess Cycle

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(Excerpt from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing:  The Surrender That Brings Victory, Chapter 12)

A diagram of a heart with broken chambers and a giant tear down the middle can be found in Chapter 6 of my book.  An assignment was give to the reader to fill in the broken chambers with known sins, idols, wrong attitudes, or anything in their life that does not align with God' Word.  It is always difficult to look at the truth of who we are when it is staring back at you in bold black and white.  But acknowledging our sin is the critical first step to removing it from our daily lives.  Today's blog addresses what can happen when we never really put our sin to death.

"How did you do with the soul-searching assignment in Chapter 6?  Did you fill in the heart with your now illuminated, identified, and magnified sin?  Did God reveal to you some things in your heart that you didn't even know were there?  Have you begun to keep charge of your heart by confessing these gods and sins to the Lord, and have you been praying consistently for Him to transform these areas of your heart?  Do you realize that once He has transformed each part that He showed you, it will be time to fill in a new heart diagram, and that this will continue for the rest of your life?  Have you completed the assignment?  Have you shared your testimony with anyone?  This is taking full vengeance on your enemies!  This the the hard work of the Inner Court.

With our gods and sins exposed, with our minds now set on their removal from our hearts, and with our prayers reaching the heavens for God to take control of these areas of sin, we begin to see just how important this process is to God.  Our sins are the very walls that separate us from intimacy with Him.  Sin makes God's children impure, unholy, and no longer set apart for Him.  To spare any of our sins for our own benefit breaks the heart of God.  In sparing the gods of our own hearts, we hinder, and even threaten, a deep and intimate relationship with God, and we stay in a constant 'sin-confess-sin-confess' cycle that so easily becomes our lifestyle.  We are not living authentic Christian lives when we try to keep alive the sins that can eventually destroy us.  These sins that we ignore, and thus spare, will have devastating effects on our walk, our witness, and our ministry."