Psalm 51:8–9: Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Experiencing Jesus in the Psalms
Blot out all mine iniquities. He repeats the prayer of the first verse with the enlargement of it by the word all. David’s face was ashamed with looking on his sin, and no diverting thoughts could remove it from his memory; but he prays the Lord to do with his sin what he himself cannot. If God hide not his face from our sin, he must hide it forever from us; and if he blot not out our sins, he must blot our names out of his book of life. 1
Living the Transformed Life
Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. Micah 7:18
- Because He blots out all our sins – we have every reason to rejoice.
- Because He brakes us and remakes us – we have every reason to be joy-filled.
- Because He is ever present – we have every reason to walk in faith, not fear.
Because He blotted out all my sins, I will never be blotted out from His book of Life.
Praise and Prayer
Thank You, Father, for the power of Your redeeming love over my sinful past. Dear Jesus, teach me to walk as one set free from the sentence of death.
1. Spurgeon, C. H. (1993). Psalms (p. 212). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
