"Turn It In" -Too

"And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." (Psalms 90:17)
I'm sorry, but I could not just leave it off there, not without making clarification for the direction and distance remark. Yes, it is true that God forgives us of our sins when we confess them to Him, that is made perfectly clear by His word; but that is a privilege given to those that are in Christ, and it is only the blood of Jesus that can wash away all of our sins. You see, there is something that happens in the heart of a believer, it's called a New Heart! When Jesus comes into our heart, He changes it and makes it His home; He abides in our heart, and we abide in Him; and so it will be for eternity! That is our new direction; that is the Way, as so many refer to it; it is a whole new way of thinking, of living; it's not a religion, as some might call it, it's a relationship, a personal relationship with the Living God, the Creator of heaven and earth! If there is something wrong with your work, meaning the way that you are living out Christ in your life, then it's a heart issue that needs to be changed. Your spiritual issue has already been resolved, now it's a matter of getting your heart changed, completely changed! That must be the issue we come to terms with, letting Christ have complete control of our lives; not holding back, but letting Him be Lord of every single part of our life! This verse is not just a conclusion, it's the making of the previous verse, "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children." One could almost replace "And let," with the words, "By letting," and make the two all one verse; but then you would need to change the tense of the whole verse. I guess what it is that God is putting upon my heart, is the point of remaining sinless, and that being the direction we are meant for; the distance that our sins are removed is God's thing, but the direction is up to us, we must confess our sins. Now the real question we must determine in our hearts, is, what are our sins? James 4:17 says, "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." Now, there are a couple different ways to look at that, but the result is still the same, sin is still sin. If Christ is wanting you to let Him change you, and you are not letting Him do it, then that too is sin, and it too needs to be confessed and repented of; otherwise your heart gets hardened. You really don't want to let that happen, you can ask Moses how that turns out, out...
"See how much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't know him. Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure." (1 John 3:1-3) NLT