Friday!

Proverbs!

The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, 

but 

whoever confesses and renounces them 

will find mercy.

Proverbs 28:13 CSB

In this world those who do conceal their sins does prosper. 

They do succeed.

Yet there's another story at play here, a larger story at play here, one where mercy is needed. 

If there was no need for mercy, if there was no Bigger Story, then there would be no sin, there'd just be one person prospering and another not.

And this proverb gives us two steps:

Confession. 

And then Renouncing. 

The word used here is "azab" and it means to "leave, forsake, loose". 

So we are called to leave our sin, to walk away, take another path, change direction.

To forsake it. Discard it. Turn our back on it. 

Loose it. Loose it and don't go looking for it again. 

We confess and renounce.

That's the path to mercy. 

There's a prospering that happens in the story of this world, and there's a prospering in the Bigger Story of God's redemptive work in the world, in our communities, in our hearts. 

We need mercy to meet with the Eternal, the One who made all things, and will make all things new, the One who has written, and is writing with us, that Bigger Story

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