Sunday, December 7, 2025

Reflection - Psalm 130 - Forgiven

Source (book): "My Soul Thirsts For God", Reflections on the Psalms from Our Daily Bread, Psalm 130, "Forgiven", Page 170.
By Haddon Robinson, Our Daily Bread Writer



Psalm 130
PHOTO: Psalm 130
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;
O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.

If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
therefore you are feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.


Forgiven
God is highly dangerous. We are sinful and He is holy. Sin can no more exist in the presence of God than darkness can exist in the presence of light. To stand before Him in self-righteousness would be to invite our destruction. The psalmist wrote, "If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?" (Psalm 130:3).

In a cemetery not far from New York City is a headstone engraved with a single word
forgiven. The meaning is simple and unembellished (plain, not decorated). There is no date of birth, no date of death, no epitaph (a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone). There is only a name and the solitary word forgiven. But that is the greatest word that could ever be applied to any man or woman or that could be written on any gravestone.

The songwriter said, "
But with you, there is forgiveness, therefore you are feared" (Psalm 130:4). That refrain echoes in both the Old and New Testaments. God is honored and worshipped because He alone can clear our record.

If God could not forgive us, we could only flee from Him in terror. Yet the God whose holiness threatens us is the God who through Christ redeems us. The dangerous God offers forgiveness for all our sins. We only need to ask Him .

Are you forgiven?
- Haddon Robinson
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Psalm 130
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;
O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.

If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
therefore you are feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.
Forgiven
God is highly dangerous. We are sinful and He is holy. Sin can no more exist in the presence of God than darkness can exist in the presence of light. To stand before Him in self-righteousness would be to invite our destruction. The psalmist wrote, "If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?" (Psalm 130:3).


God is highly dangerous.
PHOTO: God is highly dangerous. We are sinful and He is holy. Sin can no more exist in the presence of God than darkness can exist in the presence of light. To stand before Him in self-righteousness would be to invite our destruction. The psalmist wrote, "If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?" (Psalm 130:3).
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In a cemetery not far from New York City is a headstone engraved with a single word
forgiven. The meaning is simple and unembellished (plain, not decorated). There is no date of birth, no date of death, no epitaph (a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone). There is only a name and the solitary word forgiven. But that is the greatest word that could ever be applied to any man or woman or that could be written on any gravestone.


In a cemetery not far from New York City is a headstone engraved with a single word forgiven.
PHOTO: In a cemetery not far from New York City is a headstone engraved with a single word forgiven. The meaning is simple and unembellished (plain, not decorated). There is no date of birth, no date of death, no epitaph (a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone). There is only a name and the solitary word forgiven. But that is the greatest word that could ever be applied to any man or woman or that could be written on any gravestone.
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The songwriter said, "
But with you, there is forgiveness, therefore you are feared" (Psalm 130:4). That refrain echoes in both the Old and New Testaments. God is honored and worshipped because He alone can clear our record.


The songwriter said
PHOTO: The songwriter said, "But with you, there is forgiveness, therefore you are feared" (Psalm 130:4). That refrain echoes in both the Old and New Testaments. God is honored and worshipped because He alone can clear our record.
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If God could not forgive us, we could only flee from Him in terror. Yet the God whose holiness threatens us is the God who through Christ redeems us. The dangerous God offers forgiveness for all our sins. We only need to ask Him .


If God could not forgive us, we could only flee from Him in terror.
PHOTO: If God could not forgive us, we could only flee from Him in terror. Yet the God whose holiness threatens us is the God who through Christ redeems us. The dangerous God offers forgiveness for all our sins. We only need to ask Him .
Are you forgiven?
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Are you forgiven?
- Haddon Robinson
 

Dear Lord
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Through Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.
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Reflection - Psalm 130 - Forgiven
Source (book): "My Soul Thirsts For God", Reflections on the Psalms from Our Daily Bread, Psalm 130, "Forgiven", Page 170.
By Haddon Robinson, Our Daily Bread Writer



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Reference
[1] From "My Soul Thirsts For God", Reflections on the Psalms from Our Daily Bread, Copyright @ 2009 by Discovery House Publishers, Psalm 130, "Forgiven", Page 170.

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