Don't pretend it didn't happen

If you are investing all your emotional energy in covering up your sin, you aren’t going to have anything left to do what God has called you to do.

People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)

Have you ever spilled grape juice on beige carpet? What about salsa on light-colored upholstery? Have you ever put a crack in a room’s sheet rock?

At some point in all of our lives, we have all probably done some kind of damag…