They will moan like doves',
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"They will moan like doves—weeping for their sins!" Ezekiel 7:16
Such is the effect of real conversion to God.
The unconverted man may weep when his iniquity is found out—for he dreads the shame and punishment of his sin.
But only the sincere believer will mourn—because he has sinned against a God of love, and broken a law that is holy, just and good. He will mourn over the sin that dwells in him—which no one knows but himself; as well as for the iniquity that is discovered by his fellow men. He daily mourns—because he daily sins.
Yet he is not unhappy. He knows that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses him from all sin. He knows that he is accepted in Christ, his Beloved. Yet these things make him mourn. "They will look on Me, the One they have pierced—and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a first born son!" Zechariah 12:10
The greater his confidence in God;
the sweeter his enjoyment of a Saviour's love;
the closer he walks with God—
the more he mourns for his iniquity.
Beloved, do you mourn for your iniquity?
Has there been any sorrow for sin working in your heart today?
You daily sin;
you should daily mourn for your iniquity;
you must daily flee to the fountain opened to cleanse you from sin and impurity.
"They will moan like doves—weeping for their sins!"
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