The Purging of Our Transgressions

 

The Purging of Our Transgressions

Iniquities prevail against me; As for our transgressions, You will provide atonement for them.

Psalm 65:3

Nothing else emboldens us in so great a way as having holy, healthy confidence in God’s ongoing work in our personal lives.  David’s spiritual experience of God gave him such confidence.  Writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the 65th Psalm he declares without wavering, ‘as for our transgressions, Thou shalt purge them away.’ Realistically we must face the matter of our transgressions.  They are the natural expression of our fundamentally depraved nature.  They are, in a collective term, our sins.  For them to be purged away requires more than any mere human can accomplish.  David rightly understood that nothing less than the intervention of the God against whose Holy Law we have  offended would avail to purge away our transgressions.  Because of the depth and nature of our transgressions He must provide the means of purging.  This He did in the Person and work of Christ.  Only the saving blood of Christ can purge us from our transgressions.  It is the blood of Christ that ‘cleanseth us from all sin.’

David, with a high degree of evangelical insight, understood both imputed and imparted righteousness.  We need, for our own spiritual wellbeing, to understand them as well.  By that justifying, imputed righteousness, our state of official purging of transgressions comes to be.  By the sanctifying, imparted righteousness of the Spirit of Christ our condition of having transgressions purged becomes an ever-increasing reality.  We will know purging in all its fullness when we see the Savior face to face.

On a practical, daily basis we want to live in the light of imputed righteousness and rejoice in the progress of imparted righteousness.  May this be your joyful experience today.  Enjoy the power of the purging blood of Christ.

Our sin-purging Savior,

we glory today

in the demise

of our own sin and sinfulness.

Continue in us

Thy wondrous work.

Where the Bush is Burning

Tomm Tice