“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalms 51:10 KJV). Why would we need GOD to create a clean heart in us? Because it’s impossible for us to do it! We need GOD to give us a new heart. That’s the cry of everyone who has accepted JESUS as LORD and SAVIOR. Even more so for someone who has failed or turned away from GOD for a season. They want to get back to that right relationship and feel clean again! Repentance (turning away from sin) is a start, but they need more. We need to keep that heart clean!
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5 KJV) is great. But we are fighting against “the thief” who “cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10 KJV) and he has most of the world working for him.
Fortunately, we have JESUS on our side, who come that we might have life and have it more abundantly (JOHN 10:10) though the WORD and the power of the HOLY SPIRIT. So, “be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Rom 12:2 KJV). “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things” (Phil 4:8 KJV). That’s the WORD/GOD (John 1:1) in us!
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