OPEN UP
Today's reading:  Proverbs 28

"People who cover over their sins will not prosper.  But if they confess and forsake them, they will receive mercy."  Proverbs 28:13 NLT

"You can't whitewash your sins and get by with it; you find mercy by admitting and leaving them."  Proverbs 28:13 MSG

We all know people who like to justify their sins.

We've heard all their reasons, we've endured all their excuses...

It's just how I am.

It's how I was raised.

It's never going to change for me until _____.

It's all because of ________.

Well, if they would do _____, then I would be able to _____.

Sure, we know those folks--quite possibly, we are them.

Sin is sin.  No excuse will pretty it up or make it acceptable in God's eyes.

So, let's fess up!  Let's come clean!  Admit what we are doing is wrong--then don't do it again (forsake)!