"You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of your countenance." (Psalm 90:8)
How many have thought that the Lord was holding them there against us, over our heads, and have found no comfort in this word of the Lord? But the prophet testifies of the Lord: "You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity." (Habakkuk 1:13)
Then when He sets our sins before His face, that iniquity is gone, consumed by the glory of the Lord. In the light of His countenance there is health and righteousness. "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. For You are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted." (Psalm 89:15-17)
That light dispels sin, just as the light of the same glory in the sunlight purifies a dark unhealthful place, and destroys the germs of disease.--Present Truth, March 1, 1894--Psalm 90:8.