Confessing Sin as Culprits or Children: Which are you? Also, which are you doing?

"Father, I have sinned." -- Luke 15:18

 It is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in His precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has taken away all their sins in a legal sense, so that they no longer stand where they can be condemned, but are once and for all accepted in the Beloved; but having become children, and offending as children, ought they not every day to go before their heavenly Father and confess their sin, and acknowledge their iniquity in that character?

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child.

The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.  We have been cleansed once for all, but our feet still need to be washed from the defilement of our daily walk as children of God.

                         --- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
                             "MORNING AND EVENING"