Create In Me
Create a pure heart in me, O God
and put a new and loyal spirit in me.
Psalms 51:10 Good News Bible
This Psalm in the Good News Bible is entitled, A
Prayer for Forgiveness. David, the Psalmist, wrote this prayer of confession to
God and how beautifully it helps each one of us to come to the Father. When we
sin, and we all do, we need to come with a repentant heart to the Lord. As we
study God’s word we come to learn how important it is to follow His ways – and
not our ways. Our actions, thoughts and deeds many times are ruled by our
desires, wants and wishes. To have a pure heart we must think of what Father
God would have us do, think, and display as we present ourselves to others as a
child of God. When we say God is our Father, are we a true example of His love
and actions in our lives? Could someone walk away from us and say, they live a
God filled life.
Let your life reflect God. Read the word daily, let
your words be sweet like honey, keep your heart pure by thinking the way God
thinks, your mind and your heart should be in perfect harmony. When someone
brings to our attention a fault, we must listen carefully for God may well have
asked them as His representative, to speak into our life for the betterment of
who God sees us being. In other words we should listen to Godly wisdom
delivered to us by a Godly person. We should help others to bring glory to God,
not looking for any accolades or praise for ourselves.
Only God can help us every day to keep our heart
pure. In our humanness we fail because we are so easily lead into temptation,
hence we pray. In the “Our Father”, we
say a line,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
evil.
This one line is a powerful reminder to us that when
we are tempted, to pull away from the temptation and thank God for His power to
draw us away from evil. A pure heart is willing before the Lord, to do as He asks
without hesitation or resistance. Sometimes we think we are not capable but if
God asks us to do something, He will guide our steps and our actions to
complete the task to His glory. He’s an amazing God and will never do anything
to embarrass us or shame us. We can always trust in His ways! A pure heart is
sincere, honest and true, just like the Father.
When our heart is created pure, we want to be
serving God, and leading others to Him.
For in His service is joy, love, peace, righteousness, glory and honor.
Now I ask you, is there anything in this world that gives us all of this?
Verse 12 and 13 of Psalm 51 are powerful;
(12) Give me again the joy that comes from your
salvation, and make me willing to obey you,
(13) Then I will teach sinners your commands, and
they will turn back to you.
Only when our heart is pure before the Lord can we
even understand the joy of His salvation. We will yearn to obey and serve our
Almighty God, Who loves us so much and proved His love in the death,
resurrection and ascension of His son Jesus, who came to be our Redeemer and
Savior.
When we have Jesus in our lives we want to share Him
with others. Our desire to draw people to Christ is so great we want to tell
everybody about this wonderful Saviour who helps us daily to create a clean
heart within us. To be drawn into the presence of the Lord every day helps keep
us from the sin of the world, so we must pray, study, learn and practice the
ways of the Lord. As David the Psalmist says in verse 1:
Be merciful to me, oh God, because of your constant
love, because of your great mercy wipe away my sins!
Wash away all my evil and make me clean from my sin!
May God create in us a clean heart thus filling us
with His love, mercy and grace so that we have a new and loyal spirit within
us, every day!
Praise His name!!
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