David’s grief for sin was bitter. Its
effects were visible upon his outward frame: “his bones waxed old”; “his
moisture was turned into the drought of summer.” No remedy could he
find, until he made a full confession before the throne of the heavenly
grace. He tells us that for a time he kept silence, and his heart became
more and more filled with grief: like a mountain tarn whose outlet is
blocked up, his soul was swollen with torrents of sorrow. He fashioned
excuses; he endeavoured to divert his thoughts, but it was all to no
purpose; like a festering sore his anguish gathered, and as he would not
use the lancet of confession, his spirit was full of torment, and knew
no rest. At last it came to this, that he must return unto his God in
humble penitence, or die outright; so he hastened to the mercy-seat, and
there unrolled the volume of his iniquities before the all-seeing One,
acknowledging all the evil of his ways in language such as you read in
the fifty-first and other penitential Psalms. Having done this, a work
so simple and yet so difficult to pride, he received at once the token
of divine forgiveness; the bones which had been broken were made to
rejoice, and he came forth from his closet to sing the blessedness of
the man whose transgression is forgiven. See the value of a
grace-wrought confession of sin! It is to be prized above all price, for
in every case where there is a genuine, gracious confession, mercy is
freely given, not because the repentance and confession deserve mercy, but for Christ's sake.
Blessed be God, there is always healing for the broken heart; the
fountain is ever flowing to cleanse us from our sins. Truly, O Lord,
thou art a God “ready to pardon!” Therefore will we acknowledge our
iniquities.
This devotion was taken from The Apostle's Bible app.
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