The power of Confession

 

The sources of excerpts below are the St. Paul Center's and Scott Hahn's websites. The concerned links are listed after them.

I found the explanation of both, Emily Stimpson Chapman and Scott Hahn, excellent:

She said (video):

"We can't give God anything really like everything good we do, because God gives us Grace; every good gift we have, every good gift we offer back to Him comes from Him. But one thing that we can give Him that does not come from Him is our sins."

In other words, she wrote:

"All the good that is done to us and that we do comes from God and God alone. We cooperate with His Grace. However, one thing we can give the Lord that He does not have is our sin. If we give God our sin and offer Him our brokenness and weakness, He can use that for His greater glory and our redemption."

She said (video):

"He doesn't want us to hide, He doesn't want us to run in shame, He doesn't want us to think that we're beyond Redemption. He just wants us to give the wrong that we've done to Him, because then He can take it and He can transform it into something that leads us closer to Him and He can heal our hearts making right everything that we put wrong. And when we do that, the power of the devil disappears in our life."

— Emily Stimpson Chapman

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From the Scott Hahn book —Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession—

Jesus told his first clergy, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

"Jesus takes sin away, at its source. He doesn't just take away sin; He uproots it by removing our sinful heart. But then He goes one better still. He creates in you and me a new heart, a clean heart, as if we hadn't soiled the first one He gave us."

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Related links:

Video with Emily Stimpson Chapman

from Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession