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Today's Devotional

Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways —Psalm 25:7 (NIV).

It happens at times with the best of Christians, that his sins of youth rise up like spectres to overshadow and appall him. His first impulse is to wish that they could be blotted out from all remembrance. It is a better thought which comes over him, when he remembers that it was amidst these sins themselves that Christ came to him to speak pardon and peace. His remembrance is then not only of sin, but of mercy; and he prays not that God will forget his sins, which is impossible, but that he will not remember them to his condemnation. Fully, then, may he be assured that his prayer is heard.

Remember, O gracious Lord Christ, how previously you brought to me deliverance and healing when, under the sins which had despoiled me, I lay even as one half dead; and give to me the steadfast assurance, that the grace which then restored me will not forsake me, but faithfully abide with and sustain me, now and forevermore.

About the author and the source

In the preface to his Thoughts of Christ, Lord Kinloch declared that he had long thought the likeliest mode of combating religious infidelity would be to promote a perception of Christ’s human personality. His Thoughts aimed to do that. He was also the author of the hymn “Mansions for Me” and a judge for the Court of Sessions, Edinburgh, Scotland.