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Jesus told us God is light and doesn't have any darkness in him. Now we are telling you.
If we say we share in life with God and keep on living in the dark, we are lying and are not living by the truth. But if we live in the light, as God does, we share in life with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus washes all our sins away. If we say we have not sinned, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth isn't in our hearts.
But if we confess our sins to God, he can always be trusted to forgive us and take our sins away.
If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and his message isn't in our hearts.
1 John 1:5-10
Even when a little child gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar he can creatively deny that he was doing anything wrong. The "nature of man" or should I say the "fallen nature of man" is to deny your own sin while gleefully pointing out the sins of others. It is so easy for me to see your sin and at the same time so hard to admit my own sin, even to myself.
When I lived in Asia I was tall. Now I am average to short. No I didn't shrink, well maybe a little, but when almost everyone you meet is five feet five inches tall or less then five feet ten inches is tall.
Perhaps you think you are not sinning because you are comparing yourself to people who are not followers of Jesus. When you do that you can convince yourself that you are a pretty good person. Instead we must compare ourselves to Jesus, and only to Him. Jesus is the standard by which we must judge our own actions. If what you do is what Jesus would do, then it is not sin. If what you do is what Jesus would not do then it probably is sin!
Examine your life in the light of Jesus Christ. Then you will know what to confess to God. And here is the Good News, when you confess it, God will fix it and take it away!
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