It found Achan out, and proved his ruin; it found Noah out, and covered him with disgrace; and it found David out, so that the sword never departed from his house. God cannot be reconciled to sin, nor should we be. However secret the sin, God is a witness; and He will bring it to light. "He that covereth his sin shall not prosper; but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins, shall find mercy."
Let us be careful that we give sin no quarter, or vainly fancy that because God loves us He will not expose us; He assures us our sin will find us out. Oh, to hate sin as God hates it, to loathe it as Jesus loathed it, and to become dead to it, and be entirely delivered from it!
It is the source of all our miseries, the cause of all our pains, and the occasion of all our troubles. It cannot be hid, it will find us out, and sorely wound us.
O God, our sins have found us out, And melted us with grief! Before Thy throne ourselves we cast, And supplicate relief: To Jesus' feet we now repair, And seek, and find salvation there.
Written by James Smith for his own flock around 1840, but such was the demand that by 1846 over thirty thousand copies where in circulation.
James Smith was a predecessor of Charles Spurgeon at New Park Street Chapel in London from 1841-1850. He also ministered with great blessing in Cheltenham. His devotional, The Believer's Daily Remembrancer, subtitled Pastor's Morning and Evening Visit, was very popular in its own day, and has received a new lease of life through recent republication.
It found Achan out, and proved his ruin; it found Noah out, and covered him with disgrace; and it found David out, so that the sword never departed from his house. God cannot be reconciled to sin, nor should we be. However secret the sin, God is a witness; and He will bring it to light. "He that covereth his sin shall not prosper; but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins, shall find mercy."
Let us be careful that we give sin no quarter, or vainly fancy that because God loves us He will not expose us; He assures us our sin will find us out. Oh, to hate sin as God hates it, to loathe it as Jesus loathed it, and to become dead to it, and be entirely delivered from it!
It is the source of all our miseries, the cause of all our pains, and the occasion of all our troubles. It cannot be hid, it will find us out, and sorely wound us.
O God, our sins have found us out, And melted us with grief! Before Thy throne ourselves we cast, And supplicate relief: To Jesus' feet we now repair, And seek, and find salvation there.