In Christ, there are No Secrets (and No Shame!)

""You're only as sick as your secrets.”

This cliche echoed frequently in AA meetings leads people to share the  most inappropriate and unacceptable admissions in a meeting.

As explained in previous posts, admitting our sins does not break us free from the shame,  but merely recycles.

We need more than just "getting it off our chest." We need our minds  purged of the shame, yet even the best of actions and intentions cannot relieve us.

Only the Blood of Jesus Christ offers a perfect cleansing from all of our sins:

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1: 7)

In the light of  Jesus Christ, who is the Light of the World (John 8: 12), not only do we enjoy true fellowship with other believers, but in that light the blood of Jesus is actively, presently, eternally cleansing us of all our sins.

God Himself has sworn that He will not remember our sins:

"As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." (Psalm 103: 12)

and

"I, even I, I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." (Isaiah 43: 25)

The New Covenant, written in Christ's blood, is based on the forgiveness and forgetting of our sins:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

We have no need to worry about our sins catching up with us, either for the Gospel speaks of repentance and remission of sins, with remission meaning that our sins and the just consequences of our sins have been sent away, taken out on Jesus Christ:

"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53: 4-5)

Our sins have all been justly punished at the Cross. For this reason God is faithful AND just to forgive us all our sins (1 John 1: 9)

There is no guilt, shame, or condemnation in Christ Jesus (Romans 8: 1), in whom every believer has a new life and new identity, for by faith in Christ we become a new creation (2 Corinthians 5: 17)

Indeed, in Christ there are no secrets, nothing under which we must feel any bondage or bane, for Christ has removed our reproach and made us one with Him!

There is no need, therefore, to confess our secrets, but instead we can accept His grace by faith that all of ours sins are forgiven.