Are You The Silent Type?

Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Forgiveness of sin is so sweet! The fresh, clean, crisp, feeling that accompanies the realization that our sins are gone is one tangible benefit of confession of our sins to God and God alone.

We preach that God is instantly ready and able to forgive the grossest sin, He forgives the sin that easily besets us time and time again. We talk about facts that every sin can be forgiven in our life, past, current, and future sins all covered.

This is true but in order to fully claim this verse in its entirety, God put the caveat that we must confess and receive forgiveness. I do not understand that my own experience with this subject, for some reason I fall short in the confessing of my sins.

Why as a human I can not get the habit of confessing that I have sinned to the only One who forgives and cleanses us from our filthy sin, I guess that is that I am fleshly and human and the battle between God and the enemy rages within my bones. I pray that I would get the daily habit of reviewing my soul seek to rid it of the scars of sin.

Matthew Henry made this comment about this verse:
"Concerning the uncomfortable condition of an unhumbled sinner, that sees his guilt, but is not yet brought to make a penitent confession of it. This David describes very pathetically, from his own sad experience (v. 3, 4): While I kept silence my bones waxed old. Those may be said to keep silence who stifle their convictions, who, when they cannot but see the evil of sin and their danger by reason of it, ease themselves by not thinking of it and diverting their minds to something else, as Cain to the building of a city,—who cry not when God binds them,—who will not unburden their consciences by a penitent confession, nor seek for peace, as they ought, by faithful and fervent prayer,—and who choose rather to pine away in their iniquities than to take the method which God has appointed of finding rest for their souls. Let such expect that their smothered convictions will be a fire in their bones, and the wounds of sin, not opened, will fester, and grow intolerably painful. If conscience be seared, the case is so much the more dangerous; but if it be startled and awake, it will be heard. The hand of divine wrath will be felt lying heavily upon the soul, and the anguish of the spirit will affect the body; to the degree David experienced it, so that when he was young his bones waxed old; and even his silence made him roar all the day long, as if he had been under some grievous pain and distemper of body, when really the cause of all his uneasiness was the struggle he felt in his own bosom between his convictions and his corruptions. Note, He that covers his sin shall not prosper; some inward trouble is required in repentance, but there is much worse in impenitency. "

I no longer want to remain the Silent type! I confess my sins, do you!