Let us examine our hearts. For what is in the heart, comes up in the mind. We need our hearts to be cleansed, let us cry out to the Lord, to get our hearts cleaned. Let us repent and come with a repentant heart and truth to His ‘Mercy seat’. Thank God.
Psalms 51:6, ‘Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom’.
God wants the truth in our heart and it is, in our inner hidden part, He is going to reveal His wisdom. It is here, that the Lord will reveal more about the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us grow more and more in this and let us partake in His nature in every day of our lives.
David wrote this Psalm. We see here his genuineness in his heart, as he was crying out to the Lord, ‘2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin’. After David committed sin, he is asking Lord to wash him thoroughly and cleanse him from his sin. Humanly speaking, we tend to conceal our sins but as we see here, it is far better for us to come to God and confess our sins. Human nature conceals sin. Divine nature, Holy Spirit prompts to us to come to the light. When we confess our sins and ask forgiveness, God washes away our sin. Let us confess and come to the light, not concealing it. Let us be honest and be true in our inner parts and let us grow in wisdom and being true in our innermost being. Let His divine nature come into our hearts.
Jeremiah 17:9,10, ‘9“The heart is more deceitful than all else, And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?’ 10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
As we see here, our heart is desperately sick, who can understand it? ‘The person who understands it and who admits it’ – will have ‘salvation’.
Psalms 51, When Nathan the prophet, spoke to David about this sin he committed with Bathsheba, David was trying to conceal his sin and schemed ways to conceal it in the beginning by making Bathsheba’s husband to go to the battlefield and getting him killed. We know the human nature always ‘wants to conceal sin’. When Nathan spoke to David, he was convicted and he repented and came to the Lord by saying, ‘I have sinned, I have committed a sin against the Lord’.
Proverbs 28:13, ‘3He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion’. 14How blessed is the man who fears always, But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
There is a blessedness when we fear God always. Let us cry out to the Lord today and let us have light in our hidden parts and let us be guided by the Holy Spirit into the truth. As we know, our heart is corrupted, let us genuinely seek to be filled with His Holy Spirit today.
We see Nathanael, John 1:45 -51, ‘45Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip *said to him, “Come and see.” 47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” 48Nathanael *said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.” 50Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 51And He *said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” When Philip was mentioning about Jesus of Nazareth to Nathanael. He was honest when he said ’can any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ and Jesus says, ‘In him there is no deceit’. There is a tendency to inflate ourselves, in our spirituality which is, ‘hypocrisy’. Let us ‘find God in our hearts’ too, saying ‘Jesus, You are the son of God, You have led me into this situation to know my true position of my heart’ and let us be thankful to God, for all the situations in our life’. Let us grow in our ‘truth of knowing our Lord Jesus’ genuinely, in growing in His ‘Humility’ and seeking the ‘guidance of God’ every time in our lives, then we can see ‘the heavens open’ wherever we are and we can see Lord Jesus Christ face to face as Moses did. We can communicate to Him through Spirit. Let us stay away from the inflated spirituality which is ‘hypocrisy’. Let our hearts be clear from all hypocrisy.
Psalms 51:17, ‘17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise’.
When we have this broken heart, then only He will reveal Himself and His wisdom to us. He is not going to despise us.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
There is a genuine cry in his heart. Let us also seek this nature.
Psalms 119:1,2, ‘1How blessed are those whose way is blameless, Who walk in the law of the Lord. 2How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart’.
There is a blessedness in seeking Him with all our hearts.
33Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, And I shall observe it to the end. 34Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law And keep it with all my heart. 35Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it. 36Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not to dishonest gain.
Let us cry out to God to ‘have understanding of His ways and help us to go through the narrow way, so that we can have His nature and clean our hearts and turn our eyes away from looking into the vanity and revive us, Lord’.
Psalms 145:18, ‘18The Lord is near to all who call upon Him’, To all who call upon Him in truth’. There should be truth in our ‘crying out to the Lord’.
‘19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and will save them’. God is near to those who call upon Him. Let us confess our sins and ask to be filled with His Holy Spirit. There should be genuine fear of God in our hearts and He will hear our cry and will save us from our sins, as He is our ‘Savior’.
We know when prophet Samuel asked King Saul to utterly destroy the Amalekites, Saul did not obey, in 1 Samuel 15:1 – , ‘1Then Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel; now therefore, listen to the words of the Lord. 2Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. 3Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ We see Saul disobeyed the Lord. ‘9But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed’. We see there is a rebellion in his heart. ‘10Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, 11“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands.’ Saul says, ‘I have sinned, but please honor me before the people, ‘30Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.’ We tend to seek honor before men, having hypocrisy and rebelliousness in our hearts and we try to conceal it, thinking, ‘let my brothers not know’, if we are like this, then the ‘anointing’ will go away.
1 Samuel 16:7,12,13, ‘7But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” ‘And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is he.” 13Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. We see Samuel anointing David, and later David became king and when he started to eat, fat portions of meat and enjoyed the riches then slowly, slowly, the sin started to come up in his heart and then he sinned with Bathsheba and was trying to conceal his sin and started to scheme, evil ways to kill her husband and finally when he was rebuked by Nathan as God told him, David started to accept and repent of his sin. Slowly, the anointing is going away, if we conceal our sins but when we come to the Lord and confess our sins, with a repentant heart, coming humbly before our God, crying out for help in the areas, we find ourselves struggling with sin, God will help us to have an overcoming life.
Matthew 23:25,26, ‘25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. 26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also’. We see here, a clear characteristic of a hypocrite, a Pharisee, the outward appearance is so clean but inside there is full of robberies and self-indulgence. Jesus calls them, ‘they are blind’. First, let us clean the inside of our heart and then be filled with the Holy Spirit and let the Holy Spirit work in us and make us clean. God can clean every hypocrisy and reveal to us every unclean thing in our lives and when we wish to come clean of everything, God will help us.
Proverbs 2:1-6, ‘1My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you, 2Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; 3For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; 4If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; 5Then you will discern the fear of the Lord And discover the knowledge of God. 6For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. 9Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course. 10For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
If we cry out for discernment, for understanding, seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures, asking God the wisdom, He will give it to us in our innermost beings. When we seek the Lord and for His Word and if we have a cry in our heart that, ‘Dear Father I want to know more and more of Your love, every day in my heart’, then we can be able to discern the fear of the Lord, wisdom will enter our heart and God’s knowledge will be pleasant to our soul and we will experience the fulness of the Holy Spirit every time.
Jeremiah 31:33, ‘33“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people’. Today, we have the Holy Spirit and the ‘House of Israel’ symbolizes the ‘body of Christ’ today. We know the commandments were written by the fingers of God, in the same way, the Holy Spirit will write His laws into our heart and it will give us, a genuine desire, to do His will, in whatever ‘period of life’ that we receive from the Lord. He will create a desire in us to follow in His footsteps.
Hebrews 8:8, ‘“Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people. 11And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ For all will know Me, From the least to the greatest of them. 12For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more.” 13When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
He is going to give us a new heart and He is going to write in us – ‘His new laws into our hearts’ and will give us a genuine desire to do His will.
Philippians 2:12,13 ‘12So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.’
Paul writes this to Philippian Christians that they have obeyed the Word, not just in Paul’s presence but also in his absence. There is no show-off here, as they were genuinely connected to the Lord. It is God, who is working in our hearts and it is He, who is giving us His will and He is clearing all our hypocrisy. What a wonderful life it will be.
Hebrews 10:19, ‘19Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,’ We have a confidence now, that Jesus Christ died for us and through His blood, we are cleansed, we are forgiven from our sins and through His blood, we have the confidence to come to His Holy Presence. In the old testament, we see the priests coming into the Holy of Holies, once in a while, for offering for his sins and for the people’s sins. After Jesus Christ was crucified, now through His blood, we are able to come to His Holy presence. We can enjoy His presence every time, every day. This is possible only through a new and living way which He inaugurated for us, through the veil, that is only through renting through His flesh, Jesus gave Himself up for us. ‘21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;’ We need to have the full assurance of faith, that when we come to Him, ‘knowing that He is not going to despise us’. He is looking for a contrite heart, a humble spirit. We know the blood of bulls and goats can cleanse the outer sin but cannot cleanse the inner heart. But now through the blood of Jesus Christ, we are getting cleansed from inside by having a new heart now. We have this confidence now ‘to come straight to God, asking for forgiveness and His mercies now’. We should not waver in our hope and faith in Him. We don’t have to go any where else. Right at the place we are, we can cry out to God and ask for forgiveness, He is merciful and will save us. He is faithful and let us depend on Him.
John 7:37, ‘37Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’
We need to have this thirst in our heart, for genuineness and cry out to the Lord for the rivers of living water to flow from within us. Jesus is eager to fill us with His Holy Spirit. ‘Are we able to submit ourselves to Him and be filled with the fulness of the Holy Spirit?’ If we allow Him to work in our lives, then we can have an overcoming life.
1 Peter 3:4, ‘but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.’ Let us earnestly seek this gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. Let us cry out to God for this spirit, so that we can partake of His divine, holy nature.
Thank God for His Word.
