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"Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and
forgive all my sins." - Psalm 25:18
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas
concerning our sins-when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up
with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also, to take
both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David carried his
sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin. Observe, then, we must take
our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for he
counteth the hairs of your head; and your great sorrows you may commit to him,
for he holdeth the ocean in the hollow of his hand. Go to him, whatever your
present trouble may be, and you shall find him able and willing to relieve you.
But we must take our sins to God too. We must carry them to the cross, that the
blood may fall upon them, to purge away their guilt, and to destroy their
defiling power.
The special lesson of the text is this:-that we are to go to the Lord with
sorrows and with sins in the right spirit. Note that all David asks concerning
his sorrow is, "Look upon mine affliction and my pain;" but the next petition is
vastly more express, definite, decided, plain-"Forgive all my sins." Many
sufferers would have put it, "Remove my affliction and my pain, and look at my
sins." But David does not say so; he cries, "Lord, as for my affliction and my
pain, I will not dictate to thy wisdom. Lord, look at them, I will leave them to
thee, I should be glad to have my pain removed, but do as thou wilt; but as for
my sins, Lord, I know what I want with them; I must have them forgiven; I cannot
endure to lie under their curse for a moment. " A Christian counts sorrow
lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles should continue,
but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions.
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