Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
David shows us that true happiness rests on one thing alone: God's free forgiveness of our guilt and full acceptance of our persons. Without this reconciliation, men either writhe in torment or drift into deadly forgetfulness of both God and themselves, unable to imagine that He could be gracious to them at all.
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Commenting on Psalm 32:1-11
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found. If the psalmist means that on account of God's mercy others would become hopeful, his witness is true. Remarkable answers to prayer very much quicken the prayerfulness of other godly persons. Where one man finds a golden nugget others feel inclined to dig.
Our happiness flows from one fundamental privilege: the forgiveness of sin itself. This is the ground, not merely a decoration; from this one mercy all other blessings in the Christian life spring forth as branches from a root.
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Commenting on Psalm 32:1-6