Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday September 14, 2020 |
Evening Time: 5:33 PM PST
"I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I
will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity of
my sin." --Psalm 32:5
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.
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