Psalms 51:10 (ESV Strong's)
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
What God Creates Within Us is Steadfast!
Psalms 51 is one of the familiar and famous pieces of pottery in the entire book of Psalms, and perhaps the Bible. It is the prayer of King David after he committed his sin with Bathsheba and arranged the circumstances that would guarantee her husband, Uriah’s, death. David is in a very bad spot when he prayed this song and composed this poem. This would be the very lowest part of his life. He begins by asking for mercy - he ends by promising service and sacrifice. In the middle something had to happen. It did not happen by the act of David. It happened by God doing something in David’s heart. In the above passage we read about David asking for a “clean heart.” Only God can clean the heart. That is what He does in salvation via justification and sanctification. God cleans the heart by creating a new one. But, He does more. God not only creates a new heart in us, God also renews us with a “right spirit.” The word “right” in this text is better translated “steadfast.” The word means to be “fixed, or established,”. God not only gives us mercy to forgive us of are terrible sins, but God also lifts us up and creates in us a new heart that He fortitudes with a steadfastness that will not quit. Not how the writer of Hebrews stated it in the end of that great book on the preeminence of Christ in our lives:
Hebrews 13:20-21 (ESV Strong's)
Benediction
20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
God equips us to do His will by giving us a steadfastness.
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