No secret from God

Have you been there? Have you felt the ground of conviction give way beneath your feet? The ledge crumbles, your eyes widen, and down you go. Poof!

Now what do you do? When we fall, we can dismiss it. We can deny it. We can distort it. Or we can deal with it.

We can keep no secrets from God. Confession is not telling God what we did. He already knows. Confession is simply agreeing with God that our acts our wrong.

How can God heal what we deny? How can God grant us pardon when we don't admit our guilt? Ahh, there's that word: guilt. Isn't that what we avoid? Guilt. Isn't that we detest? But is guilt bad? What does guilt imply if not that we know right from wrong, that we aspire to be better than we are. That's what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.