The Blotting Out of Iniquities

The Blotting Out of Iniquities

Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.

Psalm 51:9

David returns to the critical issue of the removal of his sin-stains. He uses very evangelical language. Our text calls to mind the text from Colossians 2:14 where Paul describes the work of Christ. There he tells us of Christ, ‘having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.’ Here is the reason we make much of the Person and Work of Christ. No other person is qualified to act in this capacity. Nothing else but this crosswork of His can avail and prevail to remedy our sin-sickness. David wanted his ‘iniquities’ gone and had enough evangelical understanding to realize that he stood in need of the ‘blood of the everlasting covenant.’ This is the scarlet thread which runs through the Scriptures from the beginning to the end. The song of the saints in glory is, ‘to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.’ David’s Christ is our Christ. The Blood that would blot out his iniquities will blot out our iniquities as well. Although the climate of our times and culture abhors what some call a ‘slaughterhouse religion,’ we continue to proclaim that it is the Blood of Christ that will blot out our iniquities. Today, let us take the time to dwell upon the virtue and value of this atoning Blood.

Our Holy and Righteous God,
we rejoice that You blot out our iniquities.
We praise You that we may ever resort to the
cleansing blood of Christ to wash us from every stain.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning