"Let God Work" -3

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalms 51:10) Okay, I am sorry, but I must make this point hit home; I know that we have sung this song forever, but what comes naturally is not always what is meant to happen. There are three basic parts to this verse, the first of which is the part that is asking God to create a clean heart in me, which requires offering our heart to Him so that He might create something wonderful. The second part, although it is simple to think about, it is hard to actually put it into action, which is the "O God" part; I say that based upon the history of us putting our trust in God whole heartily and waiting for Him to do what He is going to do. Basically, it all comes down to who God really is to us: Is He God or not? If He is the God that created the heavens and the earth is six days, then it really shouldn't be that hard for Him to reshape my heart or to create something from nothing; which is what we usually need to happen, because there is nothing wonderful in these hearts of ours to begin with. The third part is one that requires our participation on a completely different level; not only do we need to give Him our heart, but we have got to want Him to change us; which is that "renew a right spirit within me" part. This part is sometimes the hardest part to get through, and what went wrong for so many in the wilderness. God had to change an entire generation of His people, and when that generation refused to be changed, then He moved onto the next, and they all perished in the wilderness. Think about this or a moment, as the most important thing for us to do, before we can actually love God, we must trust God is God, that He loves us, and that He has only good things that He wants to do in us and for us; if we do not have those basics down first, then all that we are doing is loving an empty suit. We must believe in God, trust in God, and then we can love on God... "For some, when they heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to fall short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." (Hebrews 3:16-4:2)