Confession

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." - John 4:16–18

In today's text, Jesus immediately turns to the cause of the Samaritan woman's shame that brings her to the well during the day. She has had five husbands, and she was not married to her current partner. Sexual relationships outside of marriage are forbidden in the Old Testament and New Testament.

What intrigues me is the woman's response to Jesus. She tells Jesus, "I have no husband." While her statement is technically truthful, it is misleading at best. The woman did not realize is that Jesus knows the whole truth, and she intended to avoid the painful and shameful subject. Many of us often relate to Jesus and others in the same manner, and we make misleading truthful statements to hide our sin even though we cannot hide anything from God.

Brothers and sisters, as children of God, let us not hide our sins before him. As the bible teaches,

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." - 1 John 1:9

Are your confessions current? Let us go to God, who forgives and cleanses us from our transgressions.