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Psalm 130:3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n 3 If iniquities you watch over, Yah, BUT WITH YOU IS THE FORGIVENESS<\/strong><\/p>\n A sixteen-year-old church youth came in to our counseling room one afternoon, struggling to say something. At long last, in a shaking voice, he blurted out, \u201cCher, I am afraid I am not saved!\u201d before breaking down in desperate sobs.<\/p>\n That afternoon the youth confessed to a sin which he had secretly harboured since childhood, the burden of which was no longer bearable. A few weeks prior to our meeting, he had made a definite break and whole-heartedly resolved to never commit that sin again. He despaired over his heart\u2019s propensity toward evil, and cried, \u201cI deserve to be destroyed in hell.\u201d There was nothing hyperbolic in those words. He meant them with all of his heart.<\/p>\n Yet, there is hope in Ps 130:3-4, \u201cIf iniquities you watch over, Yah, who could stand?\u201d If God were to preserve our records of sins and count our missteps, we would be left completely without hope. Sadly, few sixteen-year-olds come to that true estimate of themselves. Rather, our self-serving culture conditions us to presume upon the kindness of God. Many of us confess our sins only in a customary or cursory way, not realizing that by virtue of those sins we deserve to be cut off from God completely and forever. Yet, in the abyss of honest self-estimation, we discover the forgiveness of God.<\/p>\n In fact in v.4, the psalmist personifies God\u2019s forgiveness by using the article \u201cthe\u201d\u2014But with you is the<\/strong> forgiveness<\/em>. Spurgeon in his commentary, Treasury of David<\/em>, explains that this mean \u201cthe power of pardon is permanently resident with God.\u201d<\/p>\n It took that sixteen-year-old many weeks of wrestling before he could personally accept God\u2019s forgiveness. When he finally experienced God\u2019s infinite mercy, he responded to God\u2019s calling and is now one of our trusted ministry helpers who displays the radiance and gentleness of God to everyone around him.<\/p>\n Anna Luu<\/strong> \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Psalm 130:3-4 Psalm 130:3-4 3 If iniquities you watch over, Yah, My Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you is the forgiveness So that you are feared. BUT WITH YOU IS THE FORGIVENESS A sixteen-year-old church youth came in to our counseling room one afternoon, struggling to say something. At long last, in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent2019","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nMy Lord, who could stand?
\n4 But with you is the forgiveness
\nSo that you are feared.<\/p>\n
\n(M.Div., Yr 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n