HORRIBLE
CONSCIENCE!
Ps
51:1-3
Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
David’s
sin haunted him night and day! It was ever before him. He interpreted
everything through the filter of this sin. Every conversation was scanned for
clues that he had been found out. Every event, whether good or bad, was
measured by his own personal and persistent knowledge of his sin. He understood
the proverb which says: “The wicked flee when no man pursueth” Proverbs 28:1.
Lady
Macbeth imagined blood on her hands which she could not wash away. She had
convinced her husband to kill King Duncan and so she became queen of Scotland.
This blood, seen only to her, prompted her to wash her hands obsessively and to
utter the famous soliloquy: “Out, damned spot!”
Jer
2:22
22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, [mineral potash effervescing with
acid] and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me,
saith the Lord GOD.
David
knew what was required to wash away his sin and to cleanse his mind. He
asked that his transgression be blotted out – that his iniquity might be washed
– that his sin might be cleansed! In verse 7 he mentions being purged with
hyssop which is a reference to the Passover custom of dipping hyssop, a bitter
herb, in sacrificial blood and striking the lentil and the doorpost to protect
against the avenger. Oh, the blood of Jesus, it washes white as snow!
Nothing
But The Blood
Words
and Music: Robert Lowry
What
can wash away my sin?
Nothing
but the blood of Jesus;
What
can make me whole again?
Nothing
but the blood of Jesus.
Refrain
Oh!
precious is the flow
That
makes me white as snow;
No
other fount I know,
Nothing
but the blood of Jesus.
Dear
Lord, wash my conscience in Thy blood and let me cease from being chased by the
ghosts of past sins! AMEN
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