BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT .

 

October 12th

 

Numbers 32:23  

But if ye will not do so, behold, 

ye have sinned against the LORD:

 and be sure your sin will find you out. 

 
Sin cannot be concealed; it meets the eye and affects the heart of God; and unless we find it out, confess it with sorrow, and forsake it with disgust, it will find us out, and expose us to the rod of God, and the contempt of godly men.
 
It found Achan out, and proved his ruin; it found Noah out, and covered him with disgrace; and it found David out, so that the sword never departed from his house.
 
God cannot be reconciled to sin, nor should we be.
 
However secret the sin, God is a witness; and He will bring it to light.
 
“He that covereth his sin shall not prosper; but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall find mercy.”
 
Let us be careful that we give sin no quarter, or vainly fancy that because God still loves us He will not expose us; He assures us our sin will find us out.
 
Oh, to hate sin as God hates it, to loathe it as Jesus loathed it, and to become dead to it, and be entirely delivered from it!
 
It is the source of all our miseries, the cause of all our pain, the occasion of all our troubles.
 
It cannot be hid, it will find us out, and sorely wound us.
 
 

Oh God, our sins have found us out,

And melted us with grief!

Before Thy throne ourselves we cast,

And supplicate relief;

To Jesu’s feet we now repair,

And seek, and find salvation there.

 
James Smith