Therefore confess your sins to each other… that’s a tough thing to do. It means being honest and vulnerable. In today’s media-driven society, we like to show the best of the best, not the worst. Life is messy, but no one wants to admit it. It takes courage to own up to the bad choices we’ve made, and it takes being in a trusted relationship to feel comfortable enough to share our faults and weaknesses. Confession doesn’t just happen, it requires faith.
And pray for each other so that you may be healed… and by healed James wasn’t referring to just repairing a bodily injury, but rather, being forgiven of sins. Forgiveness heals us inside and out and allows us to live in communion with others in the way God intended. Acknowledging sin's existence and praying for God’s healing power brings us back into relationship with Him.
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective… some people are really good at praying, which is a testimony to the relationship they have with God. People with an obvious connection to Christ are the ones I seek out when I’m in need, because as Luke 6:45 states, “A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
Lord, fill my heart with good, so that my mouth speaks a testimony to you. Make me an effective steward of your great love. Amen
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