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| Psalm
51.10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. |
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| Every heart is contaminated and capable of horrendous wickedness.* |
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Is
it possible to have a steadfast spirit without having a pure heart? David seems
to imply that it is. Perhaps we take David’s words too literally instead of
allowing him his poetic license, but whether one condition exists without the
other or not, David knows he is lacking and that it is not within his power to
fix what is broken. He asks God to create
a pure heart in him, not to make the old one clean.* He acknowledges
that if God can create the universe, he certainly has the power to create a new
heart.
A
pure heart is an undivided will; a steadfast spirit is loyal, constant, and
consistent. Surely, a new heart – a pure heart – would revive the
constant and consistent spirit that had been languishing around the old heart.
According to II Corinthians 5.17, “If anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” We don’t have
to make do with the scraps of an old, mended heart – he makes a new one from
scratch!
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| Jesus changes our hearts in an instant. But becoming like Christ is a process of putting off things that are old, and putting on things that are new.* |
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