Taken from the book, Kneeling We Triumph, Book 2
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me (Psa. 66:18). If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight (1 John 3:20‑22). “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” What strikes us in the condition which David describes is its deliberateness. It is not something into which a man may fall, out of weakness, and almost without knowing it. To “regard iniquity” is a voluntary act. . . . The man or woman chooses the sin, and chooses to cling to it. The deliberateness may cloak itself and try to pass for a necessity. You may lay the blame on circumstance, on temperament, on education, on almost anything; but all the time down at the bottom of your heart, in the moment when you are sincerely honest, you know which are the sins you choose, which are the sins to which you open the gate. You can tell them by a certain confidence in their step as they enter and walk through the streets of your heart. They are different from those that have climbed in over the unguarded wall.