8. Make me to hear joy and gladness. His ear
has become heavy with sinning. No voice could revive his dead joys but that
which brings the dead to life. Pardon from God would give him double joy—joyand gladness. Some joy is felt but not heard, for it contends with fears;
but the joy of pardon has a voice louder than the voice of sin. That thebones which thou hast broken may rejoice. He was like a poor wretch whose
bones were crushed by omnipotence itself. He groaned under no mere flesh
wounds; his firmest and yet tenderest powers were “broken in pieces all asunder.” Yet if
he who crushed would cure, every wound would become a new mouth for song, every
bone quivering before with agony would sense intense delight. He seeks joy for
a sinful heart. Preposterous but for the cross where Jesus bore our sins in his
own body. If when prodigals return the father is glad, what need can there be
that the restored one himself should be wretched?
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