Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalm 61:10)
There can be such a failure feeling in your life. you want to do what is right but you cannot seem to do it. All the things you set out to do, the good and holy things, seem to fall by the wayside the first time temptation comes.
This psalm was written by King David just after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and the child she became pregnant with died.
He called out to God to save him from himself. Stop the desire to do wrong and the inclination to sin. Just stop it. Change him. Make his heart pure. Make the spirit within him good and holy. Make that spirit steadfast and able to overcome failure and sin.
For a clean heart, a pure heart, a heart that yearns to God. For that I would do anything, allow any change God wanted to make. For that I would die.
Of course, in Jesus I die. In him I am dead to sin, but the inclination to sin is still there and rages like a beast, snarling and spitting, straining to come out.
Make my heart pure. Calm the raging beast. Change me. Make me like you.
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