Naming Names
June 2nd, 2009 by J.W.M.
“So in your confession to God you fight to name your sin - and to give your sin its right name. Then you hand it over to Christ by faith and taste the happiness of guilt forgiven (Ps. 32:1) and find the deliverance from hypocrisy which comes through honest confession (Ps. 32:2-5).
What you now know is almost beyond words, but has the feel of clear shining rain, sunshine after tears. Grace is for sinners, and you have felt grace make a clean sweep of your repentant heart. God loves you where you are, not where you have been pretending to be. There is a natural transition now to start loving other sinners where they are, not where they pretend to be - or where you think they should be.”
(C. John Miller, Repentance, pp. 85-86)
