Psalm 12:1-8
1 Save, O Lord,
for the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have
vanished from among the children of man.
2 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
with flattering lips and a
double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord
cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes
great boasts,
4 those who say, “With our tongue we will
prevail,
our lips are with us; who
is master over us?”
5 “Because the poor are plundered, because the
needy groan,
I will now arise,” says
the Lord;
“I will place him in the
safety for which he longs.”
6 The words of the Lord are pure words,
like silver refined in a
furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
7 You, O Lord,
will keep them;
you will guard us from
this generation forever.
8 On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted
among the children of man.
What is confession?
Answer:
Confession consists of two
parts. One is that we confess our sins. The other is that we receive the
absolution, that is, forgiveness, from the confessor as from God himself and by
no means doubt but firmly believe that our sins are thereby forgiven before God
in heaven.
Which sins is a person to
confess?
Before God one is to
acknowledge the guilt for all sins, even those of which we are not aware, as we
do in the Lord’s Prayer. However, before the confessor we are to confess only
those sins of which we have knowledge and which trouble us.
Which sins are these?
Here reflect on your walk
of life in light of the Ten Commandments: whether you are father, mother, son,
daughter, master, mistress, servant; whether you have been disobedient,
unfaithful, lazy,85
whether you have harmed anyone by word or deed; whether you have stolen,
neglected, wasted, or injured anything.
Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come, that by Your
protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved
by your mighty deliverance; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
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