Thoughts on Confession:
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45)
Last week a friend asked me why professing Christians spoke so little of Christ...whom they claim to love. It got me thinking about how integral verbal confession is to the Christian life and how much the Bible has to say about it. ”Whoever confesses me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven.” (Matt. 10:32) Your verbal confession matters to Jesus.
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Living a moral life is a good thing, but only a perfect life can save men...and that life is not yours; it is Christ's. So your good example is not good enough. You need words...the words of the gospel...words that tell news about what Christ has done...words that will avert men's eyes from you to Him.
What we confess with our mouths is evidence of what's in our hearts. What is dominating our thoughts from day to day, what's most important to us, shows up in what we say and talk about most. And what you are confessing (whether in thought or speech) is also confirming to yourself what will either strengthen or weaken your own heart towards God. (Why catechism works so well.)
Movies, music, books, media...friends...they all regularly speak into our lives, making their confession about world views, ideologies, relationships, etc., and we ought to take heed, because they all contribute to either aiding or eroding our love for Christ. “Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” means purposed effort and well planned choices. But it fences us in to the one Voice that will inspire our hearts to announce Him to the world again and again.
“Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy.”
(Psalm 107:2)