Look upon mine affliction and my pain;
and forgive all my sins.
Psalm 25:18
"It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked
with pleas concerning our sins-when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.
It is well, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the same place.
A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles should continue, but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions."Charles Spurgeon