To be near unto God - pagina 279

Verse 5 of this same Psalm contains the record. "I said I will confess m}^ trangressions unto the

And so: I acknowledged my sin unto And thou forgavest the iniquity of my When thus the soul holds on, and before God

Lord." thee. sin"

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,

.

on bended knee mourns

sin,

the blessing

is

sure to

''For this shall every one that is godly praj^ unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found. Floods of great waters may come. But they shall not come nigh unto him."

follow.

And in this contrition of soul there is a recognition of the holiness of God with an intensity such as has never been experienced before. It is no longer a holiness of God which was reasoned out and inferred from the given commandments; neither is it a holiness which loses itself in vague admiration of its own purity. It is the Holy One who in our conscience presses himself upon us, and who upbraiding our sins by his holiness, makes us to test and to taste the same in the bitterness of our self-reproach and penitence. The holiness of God then presents itself in the light which of necessity is formed by the striking contrast with the shadow of our sin. It reveals itself as a power, which quick and quickening has antagonized the death of our sin. In its absolute judgment of a definite, concrete sin, it assumes a definite, concrete form. And after it is understood by us in this definite, concrete form, it lights up as an immeasurable realm of holiness, overagainst the dark background of our sinful nature, from which the particular sin sprang. This holiness does not hover, as it were, over us. But it cleaves unto us. And thus convicted of sin, and

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