Devotional for Saturday, March 31, 2018
“The Pure Heart”
by Dona Hake
“The blood of Jesus does not cleanse excuses.
It cleanses sins that are confessed.
We have to humble ourselves.“
Corey ten Boom
After I read this quote I immediately began to think upon the scripture in Psalm 51:10.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.” (KJV)
This is such a precious scripture to me,and it is one I love to pray often over my heart.It is when we desire to have a clean and pure heart that the Lord will be able to work deeply within us. The Lord will speak to us plainly and frankly if we permit Him to. He will show us in those times that we are not rightly dealing with sin in our heart, and He will show us that making excuses is not the right thing to do. When we make excuses for things in our lives we have come to a place where we do not want to deal with our hearts according to truth. We are merely seeking to remove guilt and blame from ourselves according to our own standards of what is right and wrong.This is a very dangerous thing to fall into for this is self deception.
May we trust our Heavenly Father, and the work of the Holy Spirit to help keep the eyes of our understanding clear so that we can see our sins as we should be seeing them. Saying that, we can rejoice as believers that the Lord has an abundance of love, forgiveness and grace for us, and He desires to deliver us and help us maintain a clean and pure heart in Jesus name.
“The blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us.” 1John 1:7–8 (RSV)