When God has revealed to our spirits the consequences of our wrong actions we need to take these matters before God in prayer, itemizing each wrong we have done, along with the wrong that we have brought into the lives of others. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It is amazing how difficult it can be just to face up to ourselves and to God with the fact that we have committed ungodly actions and to ask for forgiveness.
Pride is known as one of the seven deadly sins, and it is well defined.
Humbling ourselves before God in contrite acknowledgment that we have wronged God and others, although difficult, results in a refreshing feeling of a lightened load. Sin depresses us and drags us down but spiritually dumping those problems into the Lord s lap is therapeutic in the extreme. From that point on, as far as God is concerned those sins are gone, never committed, and dropped into the sea of God s forgetfulness never to be remembered against us anymore. If we refuse to confess these after-salvation sins, then we shall be judged for them at the Bema Seat Judgment seat of Christ after the resurrection. It is much better to get these sins under the blood of Jesus and forgiven through repentance and confession to Him in prayer.