Confessions for Adult Children

I’m a firm believer in confessions which means ‘saying the same thing as’. In fact, confessing the Word of God, has literally helped me regain my sanity. You see, when I was a baby Christian, I tried to be super spiritual. As a result, I opened myself up to a lot of things, that for time sake, I now know were spiritual, but they weren’t of God. Many years ago, my son had to watch as I went from being a jazzy, well-kept woman, being groomed for an Assistant Vice President position to becoming a homeless, pony-tail-wearing bus rider. Therefore, his perception of God and what God could do meant absolutely nothing to him; simply because of my spiritual failures. Though I’ve already asked both him and God to forgive me, this morning I found myself asking for forgiveness again.

Forgiveness, After the Fact

You see, I regularly make Bible-based confessions over my son. I confess things like, ‘I thank You Lord that my son is walking in the truth, is prudent, full of understanding, uses discretion and is teachable.’ ‘I thank You that he is an example to the believers in word, conduct, love, spirit, faith and purity. That he gives attention to reading, exhortation, and doctrine and that he does not neglect his gift.’ ‘I thank You for that he is confident, has good success, is significant, influential and for teaching him how to rule in the midst of his enemies.’ But this morning, I found myself asking God to forgive me that I was still having to do so. I asked him to forgive me because these are things I should have confessed over his life when he was a child or even in his teens. But due to me doing my thing, I didn’t. Because I was too busy getting high and jumping in and out of everybody’s bed, I found myself being late to do what I should have done for him a