Psalms 32:5

Psalms 32:5. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

He must come to confession, full, spontaneous, unreserved: there must be a resolution. " I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, " a firm determination to hide nothing, to see the sin yourself, and to tell the Lord that you do see it, and to confess it with great grief and sorrow. What a wonderful word that is: " I said I will confess and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin." God took away the sin; ay, the very pith and marrow of it,-" the iniquity of my sin," taking the bone away and the marrow of the bone too: " thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin,"-it has all gone, wholly gone; by one stroke of God’s divine grace the sinner was pardoned. " Selah " again.