Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
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
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. The word blessed is in the plural, oh, the blessednesses! the double joys, the bundles of happiness, the mountains of delight! Note the three words so often used to denote our disobedience: transgression, sin, and iniquity, are the three headed dog at the gates of hell, but our glorious Lord has silenced his barkings...
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