Here is today’s Bible reading: Joshua 16:1-18:28; Luke 19:1-27; Psalm 87:1-7; Proverbs 13:11.

Luke 19:8 (NIV)  
    But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

Zacchaeus didn’t just confess his sin, he repented.  That is a lost dimension in today’s Gospel presentations.  We are called to not only confess that our lives are headed in the wrong direction, but practically go in the opposite direction.  Confession is easy.  Repentance is hard.  But it is a core truth of the Gospel.