It Is As Plain As The Nose On Your Face!

“He who conceals his sins does not prosper,
    but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy."

Proverbs 28:13

It was strawberry picking season and my son, who was then 4 or 5 years old was on the back of the farm market wagon with his mom and grandmother.

The farmer turned around on his tractor and said to him:

“Now when you are out there picking, you can eat all the strawberries you want.”

Fast forward a little while later after all the picking and on the ride back.

The farmer turns around again but this time with a twinkle in his eye but with the sternest voice he could muster says:

“Now, you didn’t eat any of my strawberries did you?”

My son was too young to challenge that the farmer had told him it was o.k.

He simply looked at him and said no while simultaneously moving his head from left to right.

There was just one problem.

Every inch of his face and most of his t-shirt was stained with bright red strawberry juice.  This did more to indict him than any signed confession ever could.  

Funny, isn’t it, how we do the same thing with God?

We don’t like the consequences of our sin so we try to hide or cover up our transgressions.

It didn’t work in the Garden of Eden and it still doesn’t work today.

Sure, there may be many who go to their graves keeping secrets from others of the offenses they are ashamed of or don’t want anyone else to know.

But that is not possible with an omniscient God. 

We cannot hide our sin from Him.

To pretend that we can is to deny who God is.

Worse yet, it means we are unwilling to deal with them.

Don’t hide your sins.

There is forgiveness and mercy available to you as you confess and repent.