17. For I am ready to halt. Like one who limps, in
danger of falling (1 Corinthians 10:12). How
small a thing will lame a Christian! This passage refers to weakness caused by
pain and sorrow; the sufferer was ready to give up in despair. And my sorrowis continually before me. He groaned under a body of sin which was an increasing
plague to him. Deep conviction continues to irritate the conscience; it will
not endure a patched-up peace, but cries war to the knife till the enmity is
slain. Until the Holy Spirit applies the precious blood of Jesus, a truly
awakened sinner is covered with raw wounds which cannot be healed nor bound up,
nor mollified with ointment.
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