Creation and Renewal

Psalm 51:10 KJV Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

CREATION

David is crying out to God, the Creator, Elohim. His petitions are for creation and renewal.

He asks that a clean heart be created. A request for God's open heart surgery; not for a pacemaker or a heart from any donor. But a CREATED clean heart. An OEM, Original Equipment Manufacturer, heart.

Think of a car going to a body shop after an accident. Sometimes a good body shop, can repair a part to make it look like new. They may have to use bondo body filler and match up the paint. This may be a cheaper and quicker solution than having to order an OEM part.

However, David wasn't asking for cheap and quick. Cheap and quick was part of his problem that had him in this sin state. He went back to the Manufacturer requesting a specialized part that would fit his current year body to model the heart of the Maker. Hmm, an old testament petition to be born again.

RENEWAL

The second part of his request was to renew a right spirt within him. Renew means to resume (an activity) after an interruption.

Such well placed words, I see here. The request was not to renew his heart and create a right spirt. We think that we cannot live without our heart beating. But modern day medicine has proven via open heart surgery that a person's life can be extended with a heart transplant of some sort where a person's heart can actually be removed and replaced from/in the body.

So in this state of repentance, David was stating, "I can live without this old heart, but I CANNOT live a moment without Your Spirit, God." RESUME the relationship I had with your Spirit when you first breathed into man. (INSERT BLOWING SOUND here).

PRAYER

Tonight, this is my prayer as David prayed. I pray it not only for myself but in proxy for others that need this exact same thing. Lord you can take this heart, but please, never your Spirit. The heart you give us, let us love you with all of it, in Jesus' Name, Amen.