Me and my best friend have a challenge we have taken from the bible to confess our faults to one another daily.
This might seem quite negative but in truth it is very positive for the following reasons. You become conscious of your faults and you are are aware far quicker of the things that you have done wrong and need to change.
Secondly by confessing daily it stops things snowballing. This way you can catch it early enough before it becomes a problems with major consequences.
Thirdly it keeps you humble. Speaking about your weaknesses stops you from believing your own hype and thinking that we are better than others. Confession lets you realise that I am only human like every one else and be hide the stuff we are the same. All of us have strengths and all of us have weaknesses.
Fourthly it stops the habit of have skeletons in the closet. Speaking daily allows you to shine light of your areas of darkness. This stops also living a life of guilt and secrets.
The greatest thing is understanding that our weaknesses if we are honest about them can become our strengths for the above reasons.
My encouragement to you is to find some that you can be honest with to discuss your weakness and you will find as me and my friend have is your weaknesses become less and less. The severity of your weakness becomes less and less the more you begin to deal with them.
Remember "God gift to man is life, what we do with that life is our gift back to God"
This is a hard teaching, who can accept it? I agree that being open is good for your health but I wonder if there can be too much of a good thing?
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