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Psalms 51:8

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalms 51:8. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou had broken may rejoice.

God has a way of making our sins come home to us like the blows of great bone-breaking hammers. I suppose that no pain can be much worse than that of a broken bone, but God can make the pain of sin in the conscience to be as continuous and as intense as that of broken bones, and then, blessed be his name, he knows how to heal the bones which he has broken, and to make each broken bone to sing and rejoice. Whereas it groaned before, he can give it a new power, and make that very bone to be a mouth out of which shall come praise to God.

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