Secret because its citizens were recruited from all over the Soviet Union and have had no contact with the outside world. According to a CBS News Report the inhabitants of this city have produced 40 tons of plutonium, enough for more than 10,000 bombs. The United States is apparently willing to pay the cost of converting this reactor from a life threatening producer of material for nuclear weapons to a life saving means of heating the city. I am reminded that God too has a city that currently is also the subject of much controversy and focus of many peace negotiations. Jerusalem is described in Psalm 48 as beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, the city of the great king and the city of our God.
Confession of sin is a normal and vitally important part of spiritual life.
1. Consider Saul's Lack of Confession. In I Samuel 13 we find Saul acting independently and disobediently towards God's known instruction. Saul never sincerely confessed his sin. Instead, he made partial obedience and subtle disobedience a lifestyle. Saul's unconfessed sin warped his thinking so that he later considered killing his son Jonathan, openly sought David's death and eventually sought the counsel of demons.