Let The Body Grow You

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16 NIV

My imagination was running in hyperdrive. I didn’t know when I should expect my friends back home, but I was sure they should have been back long ago. I sat uncomfortably on an oversized windowsill in the kitchen watching and worrying. Each passing minute seemed like an hour. My hands were clammy. I began to shake uncontrollably. Sweat was sliding down my spine under my shirt. I was sure that my BO was becoming unbearable and that when they returned, I would be embarrassed by it. Darkness fell, exacerbating my terror.

Rain began to fall and there was a strong wind blowing. A tree outside was swaying in the wind and scratching on the window. There were odd and terrifying sounds in the house, sounds that in other circumstances would have seemed perfectly benign.

I had been left in this large house alone while a group of friends took a day trip. I don’t remember why. We were a college group that memorized Bible verses and did Bible studies together.

My fears were groundless but no less real. When they returned, I could not admit that I had been afraid. “Everything went just fine”, I told them. I was a liar. My foolish pride would not allow me to confess to my friends that I had been failing to apply what I claimed to believe. If I had been honest and confessed my sin of unbelief, they could have prayed with me, we could have laughed together, and I could have grown.

Are you part of a small group? Do you have friends to whom you could confess your sins of unbelief? Let them help you and love you to growth.

(Used by permission of Christian devotions Ministries)