James says, "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective (5:16)."
Twice today, I had conversations about accountability. Your word tells us to confess our sins to other people. Most of us can't share the best part of our day, much less our sins with other people. Through these two conversations, I was challenged to think about whether I had someone that had permission to hold me accountable and the answer is no. I feel like I can tell Kat just about everything but your spouse can't be your accountability partner. I also have a really close friend but I am not sure that I have allowed him permission to speak truth into my life. I, we need to open ourselves up to others and share our struggles, our temptations and our failures.
God, help me open up completely with others. Help me let go of the past when Kat and I were hurt so deeply when we opened our hearts up. God, help me be real and not just put a smile on and say everything is fine. Help me to be honest with you, others and myself.
Heal me from the Inside Out,
Derek
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie Courageous as a man sat in prison he said: "I knew what I was doing." This is the hard part...admitting the truth and coming to terms with that information.