“Why does no man confess his vices? Because he is yet in them; it is for a waking man to tell his dream.” -Seneca

These are truly sobering words.

As Christians, we always have the promise of God for our cleansing found in 1 John:

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. -1 John 1:9

But the question comes up: what if we are so deceived by sin that we don’t realize our sins?

This, I believe, is one of the chief hindrances that keeps us from blessing. Not that we struggle with sin, and grapple with it, but rather, that we sin, and think nothing of it. We truly have little idea of how far we’ve missed the mark unless God reveals it to us through the candle of His Spirit.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. -Jeremiah 17:9-10

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