 You're right, and I'm wrong. Acknowledge your failure to God, thirdly, and then accept God's forgiveness. Here's the good news. When you acknowledge your sin and you ask for God's forgiveness, God forgives not just some of the times, not most of the time. He forgives every time your sin. That's what 1 John 1, 9 is all about. We use this in speaking to non-Christians, but actually 1 John was written to Christians. And John said, if we confess our sins...