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 they can only be atoned for through the shedding of Christ’s blood on the cross, the benefits of which are conveyed in regenera-tion and experienced by faith—then a person is truly blessed. If a soul lives in unforgiveness before God, then that soul can in no way be truly happy, or be at peace.
Forgiven people are not flawless (sinless) people—we continue to sin, while we live here. But the guilt of all our trespasses is forever removed from us; and our iniquity is never any longer "imputed" to us, (see v. 2). Instead, Christ's perfect righteousness is imputed to us. Who are these incredibly blessed people? Regenerate Christian churchmen—who do not trust in them-selves, 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"]
