plus hope won’t make your clothes fit. And ignoring weigh-ins
won’t change the truth. It only makes things worse. And when
you do finally get on the scale, it won’t be just two pounds
that you’ve gained, it will be an extra twenty pounds that
you’ve let creep onto your body. Inevitably, you’ll be
miserable.
Similar to a daily weigh-in for dieters is the Admit aspect of
your daily conversations with God. It is a personal integrity
check-in system. You obviously can omit the confession of sin
or ignore that it exists, but that won’t change the truth about
your life. Admitting your sins to God daily will keep your
interior life honest and clean before God.
In this section, record—in writing—the date and time of
your confession, then identify specific offenses, expressing
your remorse and regrets, as well as specific action steps
you’re willing to take toward restitution or to make amends. (I
accidently left my notebook on the counter of a local stationery
store—you can imagine how quickly I made a U-turn when I
realized my sins were sitting on the counter for everyone to
read!)
The pattern I’ve followed is to begin this section of my
notebook by writing out two verses from Psalm 139 (vv. 23–24
NLT):
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.These words ask God to shine a light on your darkness, to