“When I refused to confess my sin,
my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day long.”
Sin has a way of getting to us. In the Garden of Eden, when God made man in His own image, it didn’t include sin. In fact, when sin came into the picture after Adam and Eve ate the fruit, their lives became hard. The Bible says to the woman that she will have pain in childbirth, and to the man, he must work the ground and toil in the heat to produce food. Both babies and food are good things, but when sin entered the picture, those good things came at a cost.
When David’s sin was kept silent, he tells us in the verse that his bones wasted away through his groaning all day. This Psalm starts out by saying how blessed is the man whose transgressions are forgiven and covered, and that the Lord does not count them against him, whose sin is put out of sight.
Sin has a way of eroding us from the inside out. We were never made to handle sin. History is full of stories of how sin rotted men’s souls with greed and lust and the destruction it caused. No, sin was not supposed to be in the picture at all.
It wasn’t until David confessed his sin in verse 5 that the healing came. It came from the Lord. He says in verse 7, “You are my hiding place.” God says to David after his confession, “I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” Proverbs tells us that sin is fun for a season, but the end thereof is death.
If you are in that same place where David was, you might want to review how silent you are. Sin hides its face in the shadows of our lives, not wanting to be discovered but always causing havoc. The rotting feeling of your life wasting away is from sin, and it was never supposed to be in the picture. You are a child of God, made in His image and crowned with glory through Jesus Christ. Only He can set you free and give you peace. Yes, silence has its place, but in the case of sin, it is like black mold slowly rotting away the foundation of your life. You won’t see it, no, you will only see the effects of it on your life. Wise men and women run to God, fools return to their folly. Don’t be silent about sin, confess it to a godly friend and let the Holy Spirit transform your life.
Prayer: I pray that we all experience the freedom we have in Jesus Christ. The fiery darts from the enemy have no effect because I am grounded and sealed in the blood of Jesus. I walk in victory, taking captive every thought, using the weapons of the Lord to destroy strongholds in my life. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Let It Go 
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