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The Clean Heart

9/9/2015

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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.

1 Comment
Richard Frates
1/16/2016 02:06:31 pm

Joshua,
You are correct, we all need to pray that God will clean our hearts. What David is doing is admitting that he is a sinner; that is repentance and we all must repent. I believe that we need to be in an attitude of repentance DAILY and thank God DAILY for his great and awesome sacrifice; the death of his Son Christ Jesus. For through the blood of the Son of God we are saved from sin and death, praise God.
Luke 9:23 “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross DAILY and follow me. The words “deny himself” in this verse means that, daily we must deny ourselves, pride, arrogance, self-righteousness and all sin DAILY. Luke 13:1-5, Jesus was told about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. “Jesus answered, do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
We must repent daily, and never consider ourselves worthy being perfectly humble. Thank and praise God daily for the salvation he provides through the death of His Son. This would be symbolic of the daily sacrifice that God required for Israel. Praise the God and Father of our Savior Christ Jesus.
Your brother in the Son of God,
Richard Frates

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    Pastor Joshua Strong

    I have served as Pastor of Sweden Church since 2006.

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