When we claim responsibility through confession we gain insight to what we have done wrong and are able to make proper adjustment for a better life according to God's direction. No broken world ever begins to be rebuilt until this moment of insight is initiated. And the longer it takes to reach that moment, the more difficult it will be to rebuild a broken world and minimize the consequences. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty. Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Confession is of little value without repentance.
In our modern world we can confess our sin, recognize our responsibility and still not repent. Confession brings us to admitting the sin and calling it what it is, but it is repentance that determines that I am not going to continue to make the same mistakes. Repentance is the distinctive quality that determines I don't want to be a repeat offender. Repentance is where we turn our lives around. The freest person in the world is one with an open heart, a broken spirit, and a new direction in which to travel.