Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (N.K.J.V.)
A clean heart takes work. It takes contriteness, admittance of wrongs, and forbidding the old nasty flesh to take over. It demands trying to wrap the human brain around God’s mercy, the clear cut fact we don’t deserve it, and even deeper, the understanding that He gives it to us regardless. It requires receiving Grace from the Father and then giving it back to someone else in return. Giving it even when we don’t feel like it; even when “they” (other people) don’t deserve it. It necessitates thinking more with your heart and less with your brain. It’s not always about logic; it’s always about faith.
To have a clean heart we must first ask for it, and then work at it. However, the more we fall in love with Jesus, the less it feels like work and the more it feels like worship. The best kind of worship. The kind that leads to a clean heart…
