Hide Your face from my sins and wipe out all my guilty deeds. Psalm 51:9 NASB Hide/ wipe out – Two actions are needed before we find relief from past mistakes. The first involves re-establishing a right relationship with God. For that to occur, God must take the initiative. Since He knows everything about us,…
Let them be wiped out from the book of life, and among the righteous let them not be written. Psalm 69:29 [Hebrew Bible] Robert Alter Be wiped out – First, let’s be clear about the technique. “. . . erasures in ancient leather scrolls were made by washing or sponging off the ink rather than…
Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loving kindness; according to the multitude of your mercies blot out my transgressions. Psalm 51:3 Hebrew World Blot out – Technology has changed our conception of forgiveness. In a world where we can simply backspace or press the spell-check button, we don’t think of any word…
