Ps.32:1,2 – How blessed is he whose wrongdoing is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
How blessed is a person whose guilt the LORD does not take into account,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
The tragedy of sin is not so much the consequences we ourselves suffer (we all know the price of sin is high), but the true tragedy is the broken fellowship with God that we then endure. This is the story of man all the way from the garden with Adam and Eve up until the other garden, the one called Gethsemane. Mankind lost communication with the Lord which changed everything, We are all born sinners and find our freedom at the place of forgiveness. Forgiveness and personal righteousness are connected to what the Lord is doing today in His church. Here is Matthew Henry on this verse.
“It is the covering of sin, so that our shameful nakedness is covered. One of the first symptoms of guilt in our first parents was shame at their own nakedness. Sin makes us detestable in the sight of God and completely unfit for fellowship with him, and when our conscience is awakened, it makes us detestable to ourselves too, but when sin is pardoned, it is covered with the robe of Christ’s righteousness, like the coats of skins with which God clothed Adam and Eve, which was a sign of the forgiveness of sins, so that God is no longer displeased with us, but completely reconciled. They are not covered from us — no; My sin is ever before me — or from God’s perfect knowledge, but from his punitive justice. When he pardons sin, he remembers it no more, he casts it behind his back; it shall be sought for and not found. When sinners are reconciled to God in this way, they begin to be reconciled with themselves.”
This is the way of peace with God, peace with others and finally peace in our own heart. When we receive forgiveness from the Lord He washes our sins away and He places on us His robe of righteousness. This righteousness leads us into our greatest of all blessings, restored fellowship with the Lord. So now we can live in this blessedness that David spoke about, the blessedness of being able to know and enjoy God.
“How blessed is he whose wrongdoing is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
How blessed is a person whose guilt the LORD does not take into account,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!”
