"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. Psalm 25:18
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,
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