One Verse Devotional

Confession may not be fun, but it is the best way to allow God to cleanse us from impurities and stay in tune with our Savior. I love coffee. I make it every morning. When I have more time, I will probably do some fancy pour-over method for every cup. But life is busy with three kids at home (also adding to the need for coffee!), so a good old automatic drip coffee maker will have to do. Every once in awhile, it starts to get yucky on the inside. I can tell because it will take longer to make the coffee, to perform the job it was created to do. My last coffee maker was the worst. Or, at least, it got that way after I didn’t clean it for months. It took over an hour to make a pot of coffee! Well, these coffee makers are a great illustration of our spiritual lives. We all mess up and make mistakes. We need to cleanse our lives from time to time, otherwise we won’t be able to complete the purpose we were created to do. Our One Verse today is 1 John 1:9. It is all about confession. Usually, people think this vers