What the Gospel hopes to form in worship is a renewed heart. We may leave here externally fixed. We can put a Band-Aid to cover our pride for the next few hours, we can cleanse our speech, and give lip service to the gods of externalities, but when we live before God that will not do. Yes, if the world lacked a Creator and we were merely the product of a cosmic collapse, then living solely on the basis of externalities would be sufficient. But the reality is we live Coram Deo; in the face of God. God is here. God is everywhere. He knows your thoughts. Since indeed God is everywhere and knows all things, how much should we desire to confess those sins that are egregious in his sight?
Those whom God calls He justifies. God’s initial justification is punctuated by moments of continual justification in the life of the saint. God forgives us and justifies us with each confession. And so God’s people keep coming to Him for forgiveness, not as a way or earning God’s favor, but as a way of being renewed in the favor they already have. If God is your deepest treasure, then come and confess your sins today. Confess those sins that have wrapped and squeezed your heart preventing it from offering a beat to the God of heaven and earth. Come and confess those sins that so deeply hid that only God can excavate deep enough and crush them. Come, confess and like David, God will restore unto you the joy of your salvation (Ps. 51:12).
