I was studying Psalm 51:10 where David prays, “Create in me a clean heart, oh God.” As I pondered, it occurred to me if David needed God to create a clean heart in him, his heart must have been dirty to begin with. And it was. David’s heart, my heart, your heart, all the hearts of people start out filthy with sin. So we all need God to create a clean heart in us. But if we give him his way in our lives, ask him to clean us up like David did, our hearts won’t stay dirty.
We all have things in our lives that are dirty. Laundry, cars, desks, barns, boats, guns are all things that get dirty and need cleaning. But once I’ve cleaned something, say a desk, and made it a useful workspace, I don’t sit and think about the mess it used to be. I don’t let anyone make me feel bad about how dirty it was.
That’s what Satan does. He constantly reminds me of what I was before God cleaned me up. How dirty and sin-filled my life once was. The good news is I don’t have to let him. The Bible says, “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new.” Yes, all includes my heart!
If I have believed in God and obeyed Him, He has put a clean heart in me where my filthy, dirty, sinful one used to be. And Satan cannot make me guilty of what God has forgiven.
1 John says, “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.” God is in the cleaning business.
We all have things in our lives that are dirty. Laundry, cars, desks, barns, boats, guns are all things that get dirty and need cleaning. But once I’ve cleaned something, say a desk, and made it a useful workspace, I don’t sit and think about the mess it used to be. I don’t let anyone make me feel bad about how dirty it was.
That’s what Satan does. He constantly reminds me of what I was before God cleaned me up. How dirty and sin-filled my life once was. The good news is I don’t have to let him. The Bible says, “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new.” Yes, all includes my heart!
If I have believed in God and obeyed Him, He has put a clean heart in me where my filthy, dirty, sinful one used to be. And Satan cannot make me guilty of what God has forgiven.
1 John says, “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.” God is in the cleaning business.
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