If the way to forfeit prosperity is to cover our sins, the way to find mercy is to uncover them, to bring them out of the darkness of secrecy and deception into the burning light of God’s presence. Such uncovering of sin before God leads first to confessing it, then to forsaking it, so that we may find mercy. In these two activities, confessing and forsaking, is revealed the double purpose of uncovering our sins. First, we need to uncover our sins in order that God may