“Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to Your mercy remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord…The humble He guides in justice, and the meek (KJV) He teaches His way” (Ps 25:7-9).
At Wigtown, Scotland, on April 13, 1685, widow Margaret MacLachlan and 18-year-old Margaret Wilson were both condemned to drown in the Solway Firth. Their crime? Loyalty to Christ as Head of the Church. The widow, staked further out, succumbed soon to the incoming tide. The youth then began to sing her prayer to the Lord from the Metrical Psalms: “My sins and faults of youth do Thou, O Lord, forget: After Thy mercy think on me, and for Thy goodness great. God good and upright is: the way He’ll sinners show. The meek in judgment He will guide, and make His path to know.” “Think ye that we are sufferers?” she called out to her persecutors. “No. It is Christ in us, for He sends none a-warfare at his own expense.”