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To desire anything else but this....
5 stars|6 comments|February 09, 2009|105 reads
 

To desire anything else but this..."a clean heart" or a "right spirit"... is not what I want to give you.  Everything that "I" put in it turns ugly and small- all that "I" have done is tarnished what could have been a beautiful reflection of You my Abba Father into something blackened by the world and sin and the lust of selfish desire.  Wash me clean with Your Holy Forgiveness and bring me back to where I can stand before clean!  Let me "i" and not "I" May you rise wise within me and surpass all of the silly notions of anytemptaions so that all that is seen is you.  You are my salvation and the true restorer of my faith and it is You my God who makes me clean.


 

51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

 

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rebekah byrne
 rebekah byrne
February 09, 2009
amen that is how i feel too so i am right in there with u and we will get through it together and i love all ur blogs that u write thanks so very berry much ok.hugs to ya girl oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Craig
 Craig
February 09, 2009
Angela, and everyone:

I believe that Psalm finds its fulfillment in the New Covenant.

Ezekiel 36:22-27 ( ESV )
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Now, if I don't understand that I am walking in a new covenant where God has said that He has given me a new heart then I will spend my life trying to get Him to do something that He's told me that He has already done. We really are a new creation in Christ...however, we won't see that if we focus on the flesh and we will be deceived into thinking that God still has to do something in us. We then end up living our life in terms of how the flesh defines us rather than in terms of how God defines us, in Christ.  We I do understand that He has given me a new heart in Christ then that changes how I pray: thanksgiving!  :-)

We also have to remember the scriptures in Hebrews that speak to being cleansed of "an evil conscience!"  An evil conscience is one that fails to bow before the word.  So even our conscience isn't an absolute guide--we are told to let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts, not our conscience.

Thanks for the blog Angela!  That's just want comes to me when I think about Psalms 51. I've learned that I have to "and" all the verses together and especially pay attention to what God said He's done in the New Covenant.

Your brother in Him,
Craig
Pastor Patrick Bwayo
 Pastor Patrick Bwayo
February 10, 2009
Thanks for sharing the inspiration. He reveals the New Covenant to individuals. Ps 25. No one does that but God alone.
4CHRIST
 4CHRIST
February 10, 2009
amen"
Angela Davis
 Angela Davis
February 10, 2009

Thank you Craig :0)

   I love that verse and had to write on it (it was the "daily verse" for yesterday) I completely understand what you are saying... and yes I do not want God to RE-DO what he done for me already.  He did give me a clean heart, He did renew aright spirit within me!  My God does not even cast me away from His presence when I seek Him :0)  

   God did reveal to me something though and I feel compelled to share it.

I was talking last night with my fiance Aaron.  I had looked over and on his table in his living room he has a piece of pottery that I made years ago and gave him as a gift(do not think that this is awesome by the way: I do because I created it, formed it, bonded with it and gave it color and substance...).  I was laughing and telling him how hard I tried to make that piece my best one (and up until that time it was!)  I learned from it and was proud of it and will as an artist always feel a connection with it :0) The Holy Spirit then told me that "that was how God feels with our hearts" God created them, he formed them he designed, refined and connected with each one and put a bond that only an artist/Creator can do. 

Maybe we all need to just wash or dust off our awesome works of art from time to time so everyone can see what our Master Creator has done?

Cheryl Whit
 Cheryl Whit
February 10, 2009
Amen lady!

xoxo