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Psalm 38:18
"I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin."

I had the privilege of hearing a pastor in Pittsburgh this past Sunday as I visited friends. He talked about the sin of unbelief using the text about the disciples in Luke 9:37-45 as a springboard.

The 2 phrases that grabbed my attention were one of his key points:
1. Recognize unbelief (or any sin) for the evil that it is.
2. Attack unbelief for the evil that it is.

He quoted Charles Bridges "All our sin is born of the defect of unbelief."

I find it far too easy to continue to take the comparison view of my sinful heart. The "I'm doing fairly well compared to..." perspective. This is the frame of thinking that keeps me from seeing unbelief or any sin in my life for the true evil that it is.

Psalm 38:18 reminds me that I must continually confess and that I must ask the Lord to cause my heart to be troubled when I find myself becoming too comfortable with sin in my life. Whether it's an attitude of my heart, an action I commit or something I should be doing that I'm not - I want to be troubled by the evil that my own sin is so that I will be prompted, always, to attack it for the evil that it is.