DAY 119 Read 2 Samuel 11 and 12; Psalm 32 and 51.
Today's reading: David, whom in his youth and innocence God characterized as "a man after mine own heart" (Acts 13:22), falls into grievous sin. He finds forgiveness after heart-searching repentance.
Memory gem: "Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities" (Psalm 51:9).
Thought for today:
God blots out our sins, the charges that were against us. By the blood of Christ, the terrible record is gone. It is forever obliterated. The debt is paid, and we are free.
It is said that Napoleon once found a man implicated in a plot against the empire. The letter which the man had written was brought to Napoleon, and the death sentence was pronounced upon the man. The condemned man's wife came and pleaded with Napoleon to save her husband.
Napoleon had his secretary bring the letter, and said, "Is that your husband's handwriting?" The wife admitted that it was.
"Is that the only evidence there is against him?" he asked the secretary.
"That is all," was the reply.
Then Napoleon took the letter and before the eyes of the weeping woman and the secretary, he threw the letter into the fire.
Turning to the woman, he said, "There is no evidence that your husband is a traitor; go in peace."
So, friends, if we come to Jesus and ask forgiveness in His name, God will destroy all evidence and blot out our sins and remember them no more forever (see Isaiah 43:25).
Today's reading: David, whom in his youth and innocence God characterized as "a man after mine own heart" (Acts 13:22), falls into grievous sin. He finds forgiveness after heart-searching repentance.
Memory gem: "Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities" (Psalm 51:9).
Thought for today:
God blots out our sins, the charges that were against us. By the blood of Christ, the terrible record is gone. It is forever obliterated. The debt is paid, and we are free.
It is said that Napoleon once found a man implicated in a plot against the empire. The letter which the man had written was brought to Napoleon, and the death sentence was pronounced upon the man. The condemned man's wife came and pleaded with Napoleon to save her husband.
Napoleon had his secretary bring the letter, and said, "Is that your husband's handwriting?" The wife admitted that it was.
"Is that the only evidence there is against him?" he asked the secretary.
"That is all," was the reply.
Then Napoleon took the letter and before the eyes of the weeping woman and the secretary, he threw the letter into the fire.
Turning to the woman, he said, "There is no evidence that your husband is a traitor; go in peace."
So, friends, if we come to Jesus and ask forgiveness in His name, God will destroy all evidence and blot out our sins and remember them no more forever (see Isaiah 43:25).
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