Read these words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer about the importance of confessing sins to one another–and then pray for God to give you such a person in your life:
“The other believer breaks the circle of self-deception. Those who confess their sins in the presence of another Christian know that they are no longer alone with themselves; they experience the presence of God in the reality of the other. As long as I am by myself when I confess my sins, everything remains in the dark; but when I come face to face with another Christian, the sin has to be brought to light. But because the sin must come to light some time, it is better that it happens today between me and another believer, rather than on the last day in the bright light of the final judgment. It is grace that we can confess our sins to one another.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible: 5 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works) (p. 113). Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.
