Sunday, September 29, 2013

A Clean Heart

This morning as I awoke I thought about the message that was taught at church about the lie that compromise is. For me the hardest part is how easy it can creep into our lives. I had been thinking about this since we heard the message last night, and I wanted to understand how we can be comforted when we turn away from the compromise. Immediately a song came to me. It is almost word for word a part of Psalm 51.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence (O Lord);
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and… (renew a right spirit within me).

This is a Psalm David wrote and I believe sang to God after he had impregnated one of his soldiers wives and then had him killed in battle so no one would know. He was called out by the prophet Nathan whom God had sent to David to get him to confess his sin and repent. The entire story can be found in 2 Samuel 11-12. While that is truly a sad story of someone that compromised their commitment to God, in the end there is a comfort. God did not give up on David. God promised David that he would always have an heir to sit on the throne. Today and forever, that heir is Jesus (Yeshua). So if God can lift up David, can He not lift us up as well?

Would you like the comfort today of that same restoration that David felt? Perhaps if you were to sing this Psalm as a prayer to God, as David did, you too can feel that comfort. I have sung it several times this morning, and it was a comfort to me. Here is a link to Keith Green leading a group in worship with this song.

Prayer
Father, You are majestic. Without You we are nothing. We so need You to come to us every day and help us to not compromise the truth. Please create in us clean hearts today Father. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.