TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Psalms 51:10
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​Memorize this verse: (Cover the verse text and using just the first letters of each word try to recite the entire passage.)
10. C I M A C H O G A R A R S W M

Notes on this verse:

Seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actual sins, but also have a most filthy heart, corrupted even from my birth (Psalm 51:5). Which nothing but God’s almighty and creating power can purify. Do thou effectually work in me a holy frame of heart, whereby both my inward filth may be purged away, and I may be prevented from falling into such actual and scandalous sins.

“And renew a right spirit within me”: By which is designed, not the Holy Spirit of God; for he is the renewer; nor the spirit or soul of man as to its essence. But with respect to the qualities of it; and here it signifies a renewing of the inward man. Or an increase of grace, and causing it to abound in act and exercise. And intends a spirit of uprightness and integrity, in opposition to dissimulation and hypocrisy. A spirit “prepared and ready” for every good work (Matt. 26:41). “One firm” and unmoved from obedience to the Lord, by sin, temptations, and snares. A heart fixed, trusting in the Lord, and comfortably assured of an interest in pardoning grace and mercy.

David is very wise. To get a clean heart, we must allow God to wash our old one in the blood of the Lamb. We must allow the old man to die that we can become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Spirit in the verse above, has to do with breath. God breathed the breath of life into man when He first created him. I believe this breath (spirit) here, means new life. David is saying, I want to be born again with a spirit stayed upon God.

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

​January 13

Old Testament
Genesis 31  —  8.0 minutes
Psalms 13  —  1.5 minutes

New Testament
Matthew 5:33-48  —  3.5 minutes
Acts 8:1-25  —  5.5 minutes

Total Average Read Time — 18.5 minutes