"Confession: I'm the Problem, It's Me." (Matthew 6:9-15)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. In our final series of the Spring semester we are looking at how to relate to God through prayer, using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as our guide. We tend to want to put our best food forward, sweep our failures under the rug, and downplay our shortcomings. If we ignore our failures before God and others, we’re refusing to acknowledge reality. And we cut ourselves off from the possibility of repair and forgiveness. So then, open confession actually leads to healing and trust.  When he speaks about confession in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus is pointing us to one of our deepest human needs. We need to confess our weakness, and our wickedness— so that we can actually enjoy intimacy with God and others. We must learn confession, because God uses our confession of sin to form us into a forgiven, forgiving people. “Give and forgive— these are humanity's two great personal needs before God. Please give us physically what we need in order to live like humans; then please forgive us spiritually those things that we do or don't do so that we can really live as humans - free of guilt (since human beings "do not live by bread alone”) Food is humanity's priority need, but forgiveness is humanity's profoundest need.” - Dale Bruner “Confessing is not a payment. It is simply an agreement with God that this was an ugly and unworthy thing for me to do, and I’m ashamed of it. I’m sorry for it. I turn from it. I embrace the finished, complete, perfect, once-for-all work of Christ afresh. I rest in it. I enjoy the fellowship that he secured.”— John Piper “All of the Christian life is repentance. Turning from sin and trusting in the good news that Jesus saves sinners aren’t merely a one-time inaugural experience but the daily substance of Christianity. The gospel is for every day and every moment. Repentance is to be the Christian’s continual posture”.- David Mathis  “Its me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.” - Taylor Swift