2. For thine arrows stick fast in me. He means
both bodily and spiritual griefs, but especially the latter, for these are most
piercing. God’s law applied by the Spirit to the conviction of the soul
confronts sin, wounds deeply and rankles long; it is an arrow not lightly to be
brushed out by careless mirthfulness, or to be extracted by the flattering hand
of self-righteousness. The Lord knows how to shoot so that his bolts not only
strike but stick. It seems strange that the Lord should shoot at his own
beloved ones, but in truth he shoots at their sins rather than them, and those
who feel his sin-killing shafts in this life will not be slain with his hot
thunderbolts in the next world. And thy hand presseth me sore. The Lord
has pressed him down with the weight of his hand, so that he had no rest of
strength left. Conviction of sin is a piercing and a pressing thing, sharp and
sore, smarting and crushing.
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