3. Iniquities prevail against me. Others
accuse and slander me, and in addition my own sins rise up and would beset me
to my confusion, were it not for the remembrance of the atonement which covers
every one of my iniquities. Our sins would, but for grace, prevail against us
in the court of divine justice, in the court of conscience, and in the battle
of life. Unhappy is the man who despises these enemies, and worse still is he
who counts them his friends! He is best instructed who knows their deadly
power, and flees for refuge to him who pardons iniquity. As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Thou hast provided a covering
propitiation. Note the word our; the faith of the one penitent sinner who
speaks for himself in the first clause here embraces all the faithful in Zion; and
he is so persuaded of the largeness of forgiving love that he leads all the
saints to sing of the blessing. What a comfort that iniquities which prevail
against us do not prevail against God. They would keep us away from God, but he
sweeps them away from before himself and us. As the priest washed in the laver
before he sacrificed, so David leads us to obtain purification from sin before
we enter upon the service of song. Then we shall acceptably sing, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.”
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