"BEHOLD, YE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD." He is the holy omniscient God: He knows all and nothing is hid from Him. Sin cannot be concealed; it meets the eye and grieves the heart of God. Unless we find it out, confess it with sorrow, and forsake it with disgust, it will find us out and expose us to the rod of God and the contempt of godly men. It found Achan out, and proved his ruin; it found Noah out, and tarnished him with disgrace; it found David out, and the sword never departed from his house. God cannot be reconciled to sin nor should we. However secret the sin, God is witness, and He will bring it to light. "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy." Let us be careful that we give sin no quarter, or vainly fancy that because God loves us He will not expose us; He assures us our sin will find us out. O to hate sin as God hates it, to loathe it as Jesus loathes it, and to become dead to it and be entirely delivered from it! It is the source of all our miseries, the cause of all our pains, and the occasion of all our troubles. It cannot be hid; it will find us out, and sorely wound us. So let every hidden sin be confessed and cleansed by the blood of the Lamb.

For Meditation:
O God, my sins have found me out,
And weighed me down with grief!
Before Thy throne myself I cast,
And plead O Lord forgive;
To Jesus' feet I now repair,
To seek, and find forgiveness there.