Psalm 32:4-6 "Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the LORD." And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone. Therefore, let all the godly confess their rebellion to you while there is time, that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment." Once we acknowledge our sin, we must confess our sin. What is confession? The word confess means "to admit", yet it does not involve just admitting our sins, for we hide nothing from the Living God. Confession puts before us what we have hidden from ourselves. It means that we see our sin as He sees our sin and through our new insight we’ve come into agreement with Him. The process of repentance deals with the whole inner person. It involves the mind, the emotions & the will. When we see ourselves as God see us, He won’t have to discipline us to break our hearts.  Jesus only looked at Peter & his heart was broken in repentance. Luke 22:61-62 "The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly." He saw himself in the mirror of truth and it broke him. God leaves no stone unturned, but this work involves relationship, willingness and cost. Psalm 51:16-17 "For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." My mother says, "sometimes you see Jesus wreck a life before you see Him save it." What she means is that God is deep and He works deeply. If we are pridefully resistant, He will press in harder. One will be in direct proportion with the other. The harder He needs to press, the more our need for brokenness is revealed. Remember, His approach is motivated by His great love for us and it is in His approach that we are broken. In those moments, we have two choices, to run or to become obedient. 2 Corinthians 10:4-6 "(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." If there are things in His way, He will  move or remove them and it may "feel or appear" like wreckage is occurring. It may feel like everything is contrary to your understanding of things, but it is not about what you think, it is about who God  is. It is about Him establishing Himself on the throne of your life. It is about knowing who He is and having a heart that desires Him no matter what the cost. Isaiah 55:7-9 "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." There are many rewards to this deep working of God in us. The act of surrender that repentance brings puts us in right relationship with God through obedience, we begin to know Him on His terms rather than on our own finite understandings of the Infinite God. It paves the way to one of God’s biggest will for us; to be conformed into His image, and it begins to show us how we must be poured out before him, casting our lives before Him now, as we will cast our crowns before Him later. Romans 8:28-30 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."