Psalm 51: 8 – 13
Is there anything more sweet tasting than an apple that you just picked off a tree in the fall? Vegetables we have grown to eat are, by far, tastier than what you can get at the local super market. Milk from the farm seems to be cooler and thicker than milk that has been overly processed at a factory. Even when we find the love of our lives, is there anything more intoxicating than those first few months?
Freshness is the key.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
I need that kind of freshness in my relationship with God. I can have too many stale attitudes—impatience, criticism, and selfishness—and not enough “longsuffering, kindness, gentleness,” which are “the fruit of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-23).
When I first came to know the Lord, I didn’t know any scriptures; I just knew that I was in a relationship that I had never known before. It was years before I was able to get myself to read the Bible all the way through. I had read the Bible at least twice before I comprehended the words in Psalm 51. What I read floored me. I couldn’t believe that I had read it before and not felt the impact of the words written by David. There, on the page, was my life’s story. When I was done reading, I felt renewed, refreshed, restored, I felt that first blush of love all over again, and I didn’t want to let the feeling go.
As David repented of the sin in his life, he prayed, “Create in me a clean heart.” Then he petitioned God: “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation”. Confession and repentance of our sin renews our fellowship with the Lord and allows us to joyously begin anew.
Ain’t it cool when you can do that each and every day?
Is there anything more sweet tasting than an apple that you just picked off a tree in the fall? Vegetables we have grown to eat are, by far, tastier than what you can get at the local super market. Milk from the farm seems to be cooler and thicker than milk that has been overly processed at a factory. Even when we find the love of our lives, is there anything more intoxicating than those first few months?
Freshness is the key.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
I need that kind of freshness in my relationship with God. I can have too many stale attitudes—impatience, criticism, and selfishness—and not enough “longsuffering, kindness, gentleness,” which are “the fruit of the Spirit” (Gal. 5:22-23).
When I first came to know the Lord, I didn’t know any scriptures; I just knew that I was in a relationship that I had never known before. It was years before I was able to get myself to read the Bible all the way through. I had read the Bible at least twice before I comprehended the words in Psalm 51. What I read floored me. I couldn’t believe that I had read it before and not felt the impact of the words written by David. There, on the page, was my life’s story. When I was done reading, I felt renewed, refreshed, restored, I felt that first blush of love all over again, and I didn’t want to let the feeling go.
As David repented of the sin in his life, he prayed, “Create in me a clean heart.” Then he petitioned God: “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation”. Confession and repentance of our sin renews our fellowship with the Lord and allows us to joyously begin anew.
Ain’t it cool when you can do that each and every day?
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