Confession means that we 'agree with' or 'say the same as ' God regarding sin. Confession is simply acknowledging, then verbalizing that we fall short of God's standard for living. The first step to wholeness and healing is to recognize that we have a problem.
Sin is the problem in each of our lives.
But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, he gave the right to become children of God. A famed tightrope walker once completed several walks on a thin cable stretched over a deep crevice. A rather large crowd had gathered by the time he finished his latest walk on the wire. When he stepped on to solid ground, the crowd responded with thunderous applause. As the applause died down, the acrobat asked the crowd if they believed he could walk on the tightrope to the other side of the crevice and back, while carrying someone on his shoulders.