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AMEN KAYAK AND AMEN ALL!

"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.

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!