My younger siblings version of cleaning there room is shoving everything into random corners and drawers so that my mom will not find it. They proudly present her with a “clean” room and run off to play forgetting for the moment that the doll clothes or books have been carelessly tossed into their sock drawer. However, much to their own dismay, it’s found later on and they end up punished for not putting it where it belonged.
A lot of the time we treat sin just like my siblings treat cleaning their room. We toss it aside saying we’ll “deal” with it later, sometimes we even try to hide it from others around us. Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden when they tried to hide from God after eating from the tree. What we forget is that when we don’t deal with our sin we can’t grow in the Spirit.
Proverbs 28:13 People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy. As Christians we should be confessing our sin, we aren’t perfect, we have times where we will fall, (Romans 3:23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.)but God doesn’t count how many times we fall, he counts the times we get back up and clean up our act. He wants us to experience victory! "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57
So don’t shove your sin into a closet let God come in your life and help you clean your room.
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