CHAPTER 32

A PSALM OF DAVID: THE BLESSEDNESS OF FORGIVENESS

¹Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (This Psalm speaks of the terror of unconfessed sin, and then of the blessing of confessed sin. David probably wrote this Psalm immediately after the sin with Bath-sheba, and shortly before the coming of Nathan the Prophet.

Once again, the reader will be taken into the heart of God, resulting in the Intercessory Work of Christ, our Great High Priest.

In this Psalm, the Lord will speak in His Own Name, as the Great High Priest of His People, on our behalf, as if He Himself were the guilty transgressor.

What a consolation it is to have a Priest Who thus makes Himself One with the repentant sinner, pleads and prays as the sinner ought to plead and pray but cannot, and uses the very words which will be acceptable to God. Such an High Priest becomes repentant man.)

²Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile (although we are guilty, the Lord will not impute iniquity to us, providing our Faith is in Christ, Who has taken the guilt of penalty upon Himself, all at the Cross of Calvary).

³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long (no load is heavier to bear than unconfessed sin).

⁴For day and night Your Hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (No night is so black as when the Hand of God is held over ones face to shut out the light because of unconfessed sin.)

⁵I acknowledged my sin unto You, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Verse 5 proclaims the joy of sins forgiven versus the misery of the unconfessed sin of Verse 4.)

⁶For this shall everyone who is Godly pray unto You in a time when You may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him (the term Godly means one to whom God shows Mercy; it expresses the attitude of God toward the repentant sinner, rather than the moral worthiness of the repentant sinner toward God).

⁷You are my Hiding Place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. (Unconfessed sin stifles the song; forgiveness and Deliverance bring on the song.)

⁸I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with My eye (with such instruction, teaching, and guidance, we cannot fail!).

⁹Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto you (as these animals must be restrained, so must the willful Christian be constrained).

¹⁰Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he who trusts in the LORD, Mercy shall compass him about (there is precious little mercy with man, but with the Lord there is abundant Mercy).

¹¹Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart (the true Believer in this world is the only one who has anything to truly shout about!).