Psalm 51:1-19 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness… A boy ran in to his mother one day after he had read that promise, "I will blot out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions." And he said: "Mother, what does God mean when He says He will blot out my sins? What is He going to do with them? I can't see how God can really blot them out and put them away. What does it mean — blot out?" The mother, who is always the best theologian for a child, said to the boy, "Didn't I see, you yesterday writing on your slate?" "Yes," he said. "Well, show it to me. He brought his slate to his mother, who, holding it out in front of him, said, "Where is what you wrote? Oh," he said, "I rubbed it out." "Well, where is it?" "Why, mother, I don't know." "But how could you put it away if it was really there?" "Oh, mother, I don't know. I know it was there, and it is gone." "Well," she said, "that is what God meant when He said, 'I will blot out thy transgressions.'" (Campbell Morgan, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: {To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. |
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