Dear Children

Those who live sinful lives are disobeying God. Sin is disobedience. You know that Christ appeared in order to take away our sins. He isn't sinful. Those who live in Christ don't go on sinning. Those who go on sinning haven't seen or known Christ.
Dear children, don't let anyone deceive you. Whoever does what God approves of has God's approval as Christ has God's approval. The person who lives a sinful life belongs to the devil, because the devil has been committing sin since the beginning. The reason that the Son of God appeared was to destroy what the devil does. Those who have been born from God don't live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can't live sinful lives. They have been born from God. This is the way God's children are distinguished from the devil's children. Everyone who doesn't do what is right or love other believers isn't God's child.
1 John 3:4-10

Worship is responding to God's love. John 3:16 says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to die for our sins, even when He didn't deserve it.

When we hold on to these sins instead of confessing them to Him, it is pride. Why would you keep something so awful and disgusting when He has already paid the price for them?

One of the ways we can respond to His love is to ask forgiveness for the sins in our lives.

Take a moment and pray, asking God to reveal the sins in your life.

For each sin God reveals to you, strike a match along the cross. As it burns, ask for forgiveness for that sin. Once you have asked for forgiveness, blow out the match and place it in the bowl. Repeat until you are finished. Pray and thank God for His amazing love for you.