17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. When the heart mourns for sin, thou art better pleased than when the
bullock bleeds beneath the axe. A broken heart is an expression implying
deep sorrow, embittering the very life; it carries in it the idea of all but
killing anguish in that region which is so vital as to be the very source of
life. So excellent is a spirit humbled and mourning for sin, that it is not
only a sacrifice, but it has a plurality of excellences, and is preeminently
God’s sacrifices. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. A heart crushed is a fragrant heart. Men condemn those who are
contemptible in their own eyes, but the Lord does not see as man sees. He
despises what men esteem, and values that which they despise. Never yet has God
spurned a lowly, weeping penitent, and never will he while God is love, and
while Jesus is called the man who receives sinners.
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