Unforgiven Sins Distress

Listen again to what David says, “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” He goes on, and tells of the many weeks and months in which his conscience was in great distress because of his sin. “When I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.” There is nothing on earth that will so oppress one, or that will so distress the soul, as a sense of unforgiven sin pressing down upon the conscience. We find in the Scripture, “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them, shall have mercy.”
Have you unforgiven sin resting on your conscience, and have you been hoping to hide it? Be certain that the Word of God is still true: “Be sure your sin will find you out.” Some men’s sins, we read, are going before them to judgment, and some men they follow after. Some men’s sins are so manifest that they can’t he hidden. Everyone knows just what they are. Other men manage to keep their sins hidden so that very few on earth know anything about them. By and by, at the judgment bar of God, their sins will seem to leap up and drag their souls to the lowest depths of the pit, when it will be too late to put them away.