Ps.
51:10-12 Create in me a clean heart, O
God. Renew a right spirit within
me. Do not banish me from your presence,
and don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to
obey you.
This is a prayer that when prayed
sincerely God will answer every time.
There is no greater need in life than to have a clean heart before
God. Sin dirties up the soul. It puts up a barrier between God and us and
it won't go away on its own. We must
have God's help in order to get rid of it.
Only the righteousness of Christ can make our heart pure before
God. This is a prayer every believer
should live by. We should always desire
to have pure hearts before God.
When we sin there is something drastically
wrong with our spirit. The decision to
sin indicates that things are out of kilter with God. It means that we have neglected our
soul. It means that we have not stayed
close to God like we must. We have
neglected His Word and failed to spend time alone with Him in prayer.
If nothing is done about it, God will have
no choice but to banish us from His presence.
A sinful soul that will not repent cannot draw near to God. God is holy and will never let sin go
unpunished. A broken and contrite heart
enables God to forgive us and wash away our sin. Unconfessed sin prevents the Holy Spirit from
working in us. God cannot help us as
long as we insist on defying Him by harboring our sin in our hearts.
The joy of salvation floods the repentant
soul. There is great relief and
rejoicing in knowing that the soul is right with God. There is not only renewed fellowship with
God, there is a renewed willingness to obey Him. There is a real desire that when faced with
the same temptation again to not yield to it.
There is a desire to do what is right with God and not what is right in
our own eyes. Obedience follows
repentance every time.
Are you living in obedience to God? Is your heart right with God?
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