18. If I regard iniquity in my heart. If,
having seen it to be there, I continue to gaze upon it without aversion, if I
cherish it, The Lord will not hear me. Can I desire him to connive at my sin, and accept me while I
willfully cling to any evil way? Nothing hinders prayer like iniquity harbored
in the heart; as with Cain, so with us, sin lies at the door and blocks the
passage. If you refuse to hear God’s commands, he will surely refuse to hear
your prayers. An imperfect petition God will hear for Christ’s sake, but not
one which is willfully mis-written by a traitor’s hand. For God to accept our
devotions, while we are delighting in sin, would be to make himself the God of
hypocrites, which is a fitter name for Satan than for the Holy One of Israel.
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