{"id":53,"date":"2009-03-18T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-03-18T17:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:15:48","slug":"psalms-2518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/18\/psalms-2518\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms 25:18"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my
\n sins.”
\n — Psalms 25:18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas
\nconcerning our sins-when, being under God’s hand, we are not wholly
\ntaken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is
\nwell, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to
\nGod that David carried his sorrow: it was to God that David confessed
\nhis sin. Observe, then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your
\nlittle sorrows you may roll upon God, for he counteth the hairs of your
\nhead; and your great sorrows you may commit to him, for he holdeth the
\nocean in the hollow of his hand. Go to him, whatever your present
\ntrouble may be, and you shall find him able and willing to relieve you.
\nBut we must take our sins to God too. We must carry them to the cross,
\nthat the blood may fall upon them, to purge away their guilt, and to
\ndestroy their defiling power.<\/p>\n

The special lesson of the text is this:-that we are to go to the Lord
\nwith sorrows and with sins in the right spirit. Note that all David
\nasks concerning his sorrow is, “Look upon mine affliction and my pain;”
\nbut the next petition is vastly more express, definite, decided,
\nplain-“Forgive all my sins.” Many sufferers would have put it, “Remove
\nmy affliction and my pain, and look at my sins.” But David does not say
\nso; he cries, “Lord, as for my affliction and my pain, I will not
\ndictate to thy wisdom. Lord, look at them, I will leave them to thee, I
\nshould be glad to have my pain removed, but do as thou wilt; but as for
\nmy sins, Lord, I know what I want with them; I must have them forgiven;
\nI cannot endure to lie under their curse for a moment.” A Christian
\ncounts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his
\ntroubles should continue, but he cannot support the burden of his
\ntransgressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.” — Psalms 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,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}