Is Sin a Burden?
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Are you burdened with a sense of sin? Go and tell Jesus. There is no burden that mortal ever bore like this! Do you feel this weight? Then there is spiritual sensibility, a holy consciousness, a divine life in your soul. This is not the mark of an unconverted nature. The corpse recoils not from its own corruption, nor is the rock sensible of its own weight. You feel yourself a sinner, your spirit is contrite for sin, your heart is broken for sin, your whole soul is bowed in the dust of self-abhorrence for sin.
Then, my reader, there is life, spiritual, divine, deathless life in your soul; and you are just the one to go and tell Jesus. To whom can you repair with that burden, to whom confess that sin, to whom unveil that guilt but—JESUS? As a sinner you need a Savior—Jesus is your Savior. As guilty, you desire to know how God can pardon, justify, and accept you—Jesus, “the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of His person,” is prepared to reconcile you to God, and thus bring you into perfect peace. “Being justified by faith we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Appointed by God, Jesus is the infinite burden-bearer of our race. “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities.” That burden you feel Jesus bore, for that sin you mourn Jesus suffered, for that iniquity you acknowledge Jesus bled—for that guilt, beneath which you tremble, Jesus died. Go, then, and tell Jesus all your sin. To whom can you tell it but to Him? He “came into the world to save sinners.” “Christ died for the ungodly.” His “blood cleanses from all sin.” His “name is JESUS because He saves.”
To Him confess all your sin. Beneath His cross, watering His feet with tears of penitence, acknowledge your transgressions—unveil your every sin. He knows it all, yet would have you tell Him all; withholding, veiling, extenuating nothing. Only go and tell Jesus what a sinner you are, and that you are emboldened thus to come because He has revealed Himself as such a Savior; that it is His pardoning mercy—His boundless love—His gracious invitation—His tender, compassionate heart, that never yet rejected a seeking sinner, that warrants your coming, that draws and woos you to His feet.
Oh! If instead of brooding over your unworthiness, magnifying your sins, and lessening His most free grace to sinners, you will but arise and go and tell Jesus, the song of the pardoned would soon burst in the sweetest melody from your lips. Only go to Jesus—
With all your sins against your God,
All your sins against His laws,
All your sins against His blood,
All your sins against His cause—
Sins as boundless as the sea!
And hide them in Gethsemane!
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