Recently,* a friend asked a question about Christians of today, which got a ready answer from me. There is a prayer in Psalm 19 that does not seem to me to be applied by many of us. “Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression” (Psalm 19:12-13). We do not confess known sins (1 John 1:7-9) nor request cleansing from secret sins. We do not request help for obedience in small things nor for deliverance from addiction to them. If we did, then there would be no danger of us committing any great sin. Great sins are caused by a multitude of unconfessed, willful sins that are now ruling over us. A great transgression is the next event. In many evangelical churches, there is a great transgression happening somewhere right now. We do not understand how it could have happened. The answer is easy. The guilty person did not pray verses 12 and 13 of this Ps...
Jeremiah 17:7-8: "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her ROOTS BY THE RIVER, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."