Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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
Pardon is the only certain path to happiness, and to hear God's own Spirit pronounce absolution is joy beyond speech. The blessed man here is no diligent law-keeper, he is a lawbreaker, wretched and returning, whom grace most rich and free has received; his hell has turned to heaven.
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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