Soul Bleed

Psalm 38:3-5

[3] There is no soundness in my flesh

because of your indignation;

there is no health in my bones

because of my sin.

[4] For my iniquities have gone over my head;

like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

[5] My wounds stink and fester

because of my foolishness,

We have to vigorously fight sin.

“Where sin, through the neglect of mortification, gets a considerable victory, it breaks the bones of the soul (Ps. 31:10; 51:8), and makes a man weak, sick, and ready to die (Ps. 38:3-5), so that he cannot look up (Ps. 40:12; Isa. 33:24); and when poor creatures will take blow after blow, wound after wound, foil after foil, and never rouse up themselves to a vigorous opposition, can they expect anything but to be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, and that their souls should bleed to death (2 John 8)?”

Overcoming Sin and Temptation - John Owen