To walk in My Light requires you pay more attention to your failure to love than to the pain you feel when others fail to love you. If you understand relational sin, confession will become a daily exercise. (because we are always sinning and it's easy to sin in this area, put my wants and needs first, not God's or others). When you confess your sins, I will not only forgive the relational failures you see, but I will also clean up everything you have yet to see that keeps you feeling at a distance from Me. Discouragement, when it drives you to Me in broken confession rather than away from Me in wounded pride, brings the realism of humility. You are never without sin. Whether you recognize it or not, there is never a moment when you relate as perfectly as My Son. One day you will! Until then, humility will free you to live in awe of my endless supply of grace. And then the worship that awe inspires, will release more of My Son''s life to flow out of you into others, even into those who have hurt you though never as badly as you have hurt Me.
excerpt from 66 Love Letters by Larry Crabb I John 1:10, 2:1-12
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