Create In Me A Clean Heart

Thought for Today - May 27, 2023
Create In Me A Clean Heart!
Robert A. Searles

“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash  me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.  Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.  Create in me a  clean heart, O  God, and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of thy  salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.  Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.  Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O  God, of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.  O lord open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.” Psalm 51:7-1.

Bad odors rise up from a dirty and cluttered basement.  Likewise, bad attitudes and negative ideas germinate in the depth of the heart of people whose minds have not been thoroughly purged of the residue of former things that were contrary to the will of God and not pleasing to Him.  The bible tells us  that  we need to have the inner man,  or our heart of hearts, (our subconscious mind), renewed and washed daily in order to be rid of the bits of sin that so easily beset us and cause a bad stench to rise up from within us, and cast a bad reflection on the works of God. We need to take a bath, as it were, in the word of  God daily, and ask God to wash us  with the water of his word and make us clean, and create  in us a clean heart. and a pure mind.