King David acknowledged his sin, do you?
King David in Prayer (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord ,’ and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.” Psalm 32:5 David ’s grief for sin was bitter. Its effects were visible upon his outward frame: “ his bones waxed old ”; “ his moisture was turned into the drought of summer .” No remedy could he find, until he made a full confession before the throne of the heavenly grace. He tells us that for a time he kept silence, and his heart became more and more filled with grief: like a mountain tarn whose outlet is blocked up, his soul was swollen with torrents of sorrow. He fashioned excuses; he endeavored to divert his thoughts, but it was all to no purpose; like a festering sore his anguish gathered, and as he would not use the lancet of confession, his spirit was full of torment, and knew no rest. At last it came to this, that he must return to his God in humble penitence, or di