Hypocrites.
If you glance through the headlines or talk long and deep enough with a Christian, this thought will likely run through your mind. And its true. We are sometimes. Paul echoed this when he wrote, “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep doing.” (Romans 7:19) Why is it like this? 
The key is repentance, which means to turn away from the sin and not do it anymore. Easier said than done, of course. But if we truly repent in our hearts, God faithfully acknowledges that. God’s Grace is big enough to cover everything. The Bible is filled with folks who do stupid things: some of it was premeditated, some of it was spur-of-the-moment-self-preservation; all of it was just pure human selfishness. Abraham, God’s chosen one, wasn’t 100% sure God’s promise would come to fruition due to current circumstances regarding kids, so he took it upon himself make it happen. Moses killed a man, yet he was able to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. David, who was a man after God’s own heart and wrote many Psalms, had an affair with a soldier’s wife – and then put the soldier on the front lines so he would die in battle and David could be with her! Jonah blatantly ignored God’s direction and eventually turns to do the work the Lord intended of him. And then there’s Peter – Jesus’s closest friend – who claimed he did not know Jesus when questioned, fearing for his life.
In all of these cases, each person is famously known for following God, yet their human nature shown through: they did something terrible. A perfect Christian wouldn’t ignore God and do their own thing —— but, we oftentimes go our own way because it made sense at the time, or we really wanted to have that affair that is worthy of soap opera status, or we ignore God’s obvious will for us, or we deny the Lord when it could mean jail, or we act maliciously toward our neighbor to get our own way. The Bible is loaded with hypocrites! Yet one thing sets them apart: repentance.
They mourn with the Lord over their sin. They stop doing it. They move on through God’s grace. This repentance yields fruit and the Bible tells us you will know a tree by its fruit; the same is accurate for Christians. True repentance will always be evident in the life of a person. This is to be an action, where we now live our lives for the common good. This is what it means to come clean.
A hypocrite is one who says, “I’m sorry,” outwardly, but no change occurs on the inside, as they continue down the same fruitless path. We are called to come clean as hypocrites, and live a life of love for the benefit of the world. This is a life of loving sacrifice.
Jesus said it best, when he spoke these words to Peter before He was arrested: “….but I prayed for you that your faith may not fail. So when you recover, strengthen the other disciples.” (Luke 22.32)