THOU HAST CAST ALL MY SINS BEHIND THY BACK.

 

APRIL 12.
 
Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 38:17

 

SATAN brings our sins before God's face, and
  accuses us with them;
  but when we confess them, and
  plead the blood of Jesus for the pardon of them,
  the Lord cast them behind his back.
 
He will not look upon them
  to charge us with them, or
   to punish us for them.
 
He throws them completely out of sight,
  and blots them out for ever.
 
Sweet view of pardon this!
 
Our sins are numerous, aggravated, and great;
  they come up before God
   as swift witnesses against us;
  he sends his Holy Spirit to convince us of them,
  and humble us on account of them;
  we acknowledge and deplore them; and
  then the whole of all our sins which lay
  immediately under his eye,
  are cast behind his back,
  where no foe can find them.
 
But when God has cast our sins behind his back,
  we place them before our face,
  and so repent of them,
  and set our hearts against them.
 
When Nathan said unto David, 

 “The Lord hath put away thy sin:”
  David said, “My sin is ever before me.”
 
When God will not condemn us,
  we condemn ourselves; and
  when he has fully forgiven us,
  we cannot forgive ourselves.
 

Pardon, Lord, each foul transgression,

Through my Saviour's dying blood;

Hear my frank and full confession,

Let me feel the peace of God.

 
James Smith 1849