Confession and Self-Examination: John Climacus on Confession and Humility
Teaching on Confession and Self-Examination from John Climacus: John Climacus on Confession and Humility
This is a spiritual discipline on specific confession and humility, drawing on James 5:16, Proverbs 28:13 and Psalm 32:3-5.
John Climacus (d. 606) devoted an entire step of his "Ladder of Divine Ascent" to confession. He wrote: "Some people are so ashamed of their sins that they prefer to remain silent about them. But silence only allows the wound to fester. Confession is the surgeon's knife that opens the wound to the healing light." Climacus saw confession as painful but necessary medicine.…
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