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Cleanse Thou Me From Secret Faults

July 29, 2012 by Christina

Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults. – Psalms 19:12

“The world wants men who are saved from secret faults. The world can put on an outside goodness and go very far in uprightness and morality, and it expects that a Christian shall go beyond it, and be free from secret faults. A little crack will spoil the ring of the coin.… The world expects, and rightly, that the Christian should be more gentle, and patient, and generous, than he who does not profess to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus. For the sake of those who take their notion of religion from our lives, we need to put up this prayer earnestly, “Cleanse thou me from secret faults.”

Mark Guy Pearse

Samuel G. Hardman and Dwight Lyman Moody, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997).

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  1. Katy says

    July 29, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    Amen! Thank you for sharing this quote!!! So true it is!

    • Christina says

      July 29, 2012 at 8:59 pm

      Thanks, Katy! Sometimes we Christians can be less compassionate than Christ — forgetting that “Thy gentleness made me great.” (Ps 18:35). Hope you had a beautiful Lord’s Day.

  2. Barbara Thayer says

    July 29, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    Wow…right on target with this quote Christina! Who among us does not have secret faults. Oh may God cleanse our hearts so we can really reflect His glory! Thank you!

  3. alcoramdeo says

    July 30, 2012 at 12:09 am

    Indeed, we cannot through the greatest of effort cleanse ourselves from even our known faults, much less those hid from us, although we may earnestly yearn to be clean!
    It is only when we beseech our Lord to cleanse us, according to His Word, that the lifelong process begins. Our sins are forgiven once and for all in Christ, but we continue to pray, “forgive us our debts…” until our sanctification is completed and we are forevermore with the Lord.
    Thanks be to God for His faithful encouragements through this blog, dear Christina.

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