Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 32:1, where we read these words:
"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered."If sins are covered—and only the shed blood of God’s priceless Son can ac-complish this—then a person is truly blessed (or genuinely happy). If sins are not covered, then that person who bears them can in no way be truly happy, or at peace.
Forgiven people are not sinless; but the guilt of their trespasses is forever re-moved, and their iniquity is not "imputed" to them, (see v. 2). Instead, Christ's perfect righteousness *is* imputed to them. Who are these most-magnificent-ly blessed human beings? Regenerated Christian churchmen—who do not trust in themselves, but in Jesus alone.
[Puritan quote of the day: "We then, who are Christians, having made a vow to Christ in baptism, and so often renewed it in the blessed sacrament [of the Lord's Supper], should, with much contentment, choose rather to suffer than violate our sacred oath.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Art of Divine Content-ment"]
