Confession of Sin . . . A Tonic, Not a Telling

Confession of sin doesn’t make sense — at first. Doesn’t God know our sins better than we do ourselves? Why should we tell him something He already knows and condemns? Reasoning in this manner has led many of us to shrug off the privilege of confession onto some simple and all-inclusive phrase as “and forgive my sins for Jesus’ sake” which completely misses one of the greatest benefits of confession. Obviously, the confession of sin is to remind us of our dependence on Christ, and of our...