Christian's Confession of Sin

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Leviticus 16:3-34

Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.…

You may have noticed in the biography of some eminent men how badly they speak of themselves. Robert Southey, in his "Life of Bunyan," seems at a difficulty to understand how John Bunyan could have used such depreciating language concerning his own character. For it is true, according to all we know of his biography, that he was not, except in the case of profane swearing, at all so bad as most of the villagers. Indeed, there were some virtues in the man which were worthy of all commendation. Southey attributes it to a morbid state of mind, but we rather ascribe it to a return of spiritual health. The great light which shone around Saul of Tarsus brighter than the midday sun, was the outward type of that inner light which flashes into a regenerate soul, and reveals the horrible character of the sin which dwells within. Believe me, when you hear Christians making confessions which seem to you to be unnecessarily abject, it is not that they are worse than others, but that they see themselves in a clearer light than others.

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