A Clean Heart Psalms 51:10

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. 11 Do not banish me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. 13 Then I will teach your ways to sinners, and they will return to you.


Here is a prayer that we ought to pray each and every day of our lives. We need a clean heart to be able to make decisions that will allow God to be God in our lives. We need a clean heart and a right spirit in us to Glorify God. What is this "right spirit?" A right spirit is a willingness to surrender full control of our will to God's will.

When we are willing to do that, God is able to give us the joy of "His salvation" not our salvation. As we learn to walk with Him, our joy actually grows in Him! His joy truly gets sweeter as the days go by as we walk with Him with a clean heart and a right spirit! The idea that God wants us to see is this, as He blesses us and meets our needs our joy is made full. As God is able to bless us, He is blessed as well. This causes us to want to be more obedient, which allows Him to do even more for us! God's plan is that this would become an endless cycle of Him blessing us and our being obedient to Him both because He has blessed us already and so that He can continue to bless us even more!

David goes on to say, he will be able to teach God's ways to sinners and they will turn to Him! Are you walking in obedience with a right spirit? Is God blessing your life and making it easier to obey Him because of all that He has already done for you and for all that He wants to do for you? A prayer to Him as simple as "Lord, create in me a clean heart; renew a right spirit in me." This is all it will take to give God the opportunity to be God in your life today!

He will bless you as you become a blessing to Him and He will make you a blessing to others around you. That is why God created you in the first place and has given you life. Let's fulfill our purpose today!