Create In Me A New Heart

No one, and I mean no one, likes to see themselves in a bad light. See themselves for who they truly are. Today's magazine covers all have one thing in common. Who ever is on the cover has had their photo touched up to remove any blemish's or scars or birthmarks so that they don't show. It gives a false sense of beauty to who ever is reading that magazine.
Our society today is all about image.
How the outside looks is more important than the content found inside an individual.
If your memory will allow you, think back to 1993 and our presidential election.
Bill Clinton was running against George Bush. Bush kept bringing up issues concerning Bill Clinton's character. Time and time again we heard from the candidate himself and from the American public, 'Character doesn't matter!"
The public was concerned with other things and the character of a man did not figure into what it takes to be a great leader. How wrong we were, and how wrong we continue to be.
The content of man is the very fuel that drives that individual to either seek and do good or carry out a wicked, self-centered agenda.

Jeremiah 17:9 reads:
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

I can come to grips with the heart (the center of our will, intellect and emotions) is deceitful, and not only that, but deceitful above all things. What falls under all? Everything. The human heart is capable of unimaginable things. But the verse goes on to say that it is beyond cure. There isn't anyone here on this planet who can cure this deception and evilness found in the human heart. It took someone greater than mankind to come down into our time and space to break the power of depravity found in the human heart. It took someone with greater authority and power to undo what was brought forth in a garden thousands of years ago when mankind traded the eternal things of God for a piece of fruit and an empty promise. A promise that said, "If you eat this, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God." It took Jesus the Christ to break the power of sin.

That is why King David, after committing adultery with Bathsheba, and being uncovered by the prophet Nathan wrote:
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
David knew that unless the heart is changed, the behavior stays the same. He knew that he did not possess what was necessary to break the hold and pattern of sin that came from his heart.

You know....
Today is a good day to receive that heart transplant.
Today is a good day to be made new......
Why not cry out to God and let him come and do what he does so well?
What have you got to loose except for an old heart full of darkness?

God on you.....
mb