Create: Make My Heart Clean Lord

It is always about the heart – always.  It is our motivational center and out of it flows the wellspring of life.  It should be guarded with all diligence.  For it is abundantly true that sin harbored in our hearts will find a way to be released, Amen?  The word “heart” is used over and over in Scripture indicative to us of the importance of it.  It plays a crucial role on what we desire.  It can also delude us and is deceptive, giving us leanings towards what we treasure rather than what God treasures.  Remember believer, we are His, we have been bought with a price.  We are to honor God in all we say and do.

 It is only God, and through His power, that we are able to change the leanings and desires of our own hearts.  He tests the heart and we get to discover the filth that He knew all along.   I think it is one of His greatest miracles – to take a heart of stone and make it a heart of flesh.  He gives us an undivided heart and puts a new Spirit within us.  He breathes life in us.  In the unbeliever, sin is a vicious master, in the believer it is a dangerous foe – be aware and watch out.  If Peter could fall so could we.  We would all be doomed - but the blood.  What can wash away our sins?  Only the blood of Jesus.

 Ask the Lord to reveal to you (if you don’t already know!) what is not pleasing in His sight in your heart and deal with it, with Him.  If we ask, seek and knock He will show us.  He is gracious and delights in mercy.  Believe me, we want to stand firmly inside His good and pleasing and perfect will – even though often extraordinarily difficult – it is the “safest” place on earth to be.  He is loving and only allows that which will conform us into the image of His Son – heart and all – that is His ultimate goal.

 If we have a child that is broken and repentant over great sins and comes home “bleeding” and freely confessing them, do we not embrace them and seek to help them?  How much more so is God, who is exceedingly merciful and loving.  He is only a breath away.