Psalm 38:1-11
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Sin is corruption. Indeed, it conceives and brings forth death. David describes the burden and the weight of it, the existence of wounds because of it, the heaviness in his heart, the sickliness that it brings to his life, and the fact that he bears it alone. Beyond the physical and mental effects is the rebuke of God and the severed fellowship with his Lord. It brings a weakness into his life that seems foreign and unsettling. It is an ugly picture he paints, but surely it is an accurate one.

Imagine, then, Jesus bearing our sin upon the cross. He became sin for us. He took this ugliness and corruption upon Himself in order to set us free, to cleanse us, to make us whole again, and to make us acceptable in the sight of God. Indeed, He faced His own agony and had wounds on His body. The weight of it all was heavy and burdensome. The Father turned away. His friends betrayed and forsook. But He went willingly and purposely to this death because He knows the ugliness of sin and its effects upon us, how it has marred His creation and separated us from Him. And so He made a way that we could be healed and restored to Him.

Consider the sin in your own life. It may  not hold a physical weight, but surely it is a burden on your soul. Surely it breeds corruption within your heart. Surely you can sense the distance it creates in your fellowship with God. Truly it is an ugly thing to bear in your life. But are you willing to take that sin before the Lord? There is a cure for it, but only through Jesus Christ. There is help for it, but only from the one who was willing to give His life so you could be set free. So lay it there at His feet and receive the healing He will surely give to you.