“O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore. For I am ready to halt, And my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.”
Psalm 38:1-2, 17-18 KJV
David’s lament, “O Lord, don’t punish me angrily for what I’ve done. Don’t let my sin inflame Your wrath against me. For the arrows of Your conviction have pierced me deeply. Your blows have struck my soul and crushed me.” Here was David groaning before God for His mercy. This was prophetic of what Jesus did when He as the Son of Man became a propitiation for the sin of all humanity and took God’s wrath of judgment upon Himself. This is our new covenant that Jesus cut on the Cross with His own Blood. Jesus’ God-given destiny was to be the sacrifice to take away sins, and now He is our mercy seat because of His death on the Cross. We come to Him for mercy, for God has made a provision for us to be forgiven by faith in the sacred Blood of Jesus. This is the perfect demonstration of God’s justice, because until now, He had been so patient—holding back His justice out of His tolerance for us. So He covered over the sins of those who lived prior to Jesus’ sacrifice. He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Amen!
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