Myka and Pete are Warehouse 13 agents. They respond to “pings” when there is something weird going on and seek powerful items can be exceedingly dangerous. They collect these items for the Warehouse, a storage location with basically unlimited space, full of endless wonder. In “What Matters Most” (Season 4, EP. 17) they travel to a gated community in Ohio. A man died from four different health conditions at once. Conditions he didn’t have. Then, they find a married woman and a kid she was having an affair with fused together like Siamese twins. The husband of the woman catches green fire. Then at another point a man is slowly dying from gas that came from nowhere.
They keep looking for objects with no luck but eventually come to a realization that they are looking for a sin artifact. Something that is responding to a person’s sinful choices. Eventually they learn that a woman is mad at the board members of the community for not putting up a statue of her husband who founded said community. She is using salt in her cookies from a mask…a mask made of salt from the area around Sodom and Gomorrah. Pete goes down himself with a broken leg. After putting it in a special bag with purple goo that neutralizes the artifact, Pete is still in great pain. As Myka tries to figure out what to do next the man who had toxic gas in his lungs comes back from the hospital. What was different about him?
He had confessed his crime; a corporate crime with other soldiers of gassing an entire village in a war. So Pet confesses his choice of drunk driving which led to an accident and his friends legs being broken. Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities near each other in Genesis 19 that God reigned fire of some sort down on for their many sins. Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at the event as they were running from it.
It wasn’t mere purple goo they needed. It was confession. James 5:16 King James Version tells us:
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
A couple thoughts jump right out of that scripture. First is that confession of our sins leads to healing. We don’t normally thing that way. We assume it will lead to judgement or some sort of anger response from others. Yet with well-chosen accountability partners or friends, confession will lead to healing. It will help you move on from the sin or action (or move to an action you should choose).
Secondly, we have this reflection of a righteous man. Righteousness is not just an issue of not doing bad things. It stems from a heart that is cleared by confession and trust in Jesus. Our confessions lead to righteousness and then establish our prayer life. They clear the line between us and our creator. Look at the people in your life. Who would be a good person to talk to about your failures? Someone who can show grace and hold you to a standard.