Friday, October 18, 2019

Who Can Say?

"Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"  Proverbs 20:9.  Indeed, who can say such?  Do we have power to clean our heart and remove our sin?  Do we have any power to perform such mighty spiritual acts?  We make filthy our heart by the thoughts that we have.  The heart is the fountain of every evil act.  These evil thoughts become sin.  We are the one who has defiled the heart.  Only by grace can the cleansing come.  From the throne of mercy, the heart is washed in the cleansing flow.  God makes clean that which we defile.  No act can we do that will make us clean and hence, pure.  We are but vile children of the dust who depend upon the love of the Almighty.  We must come to Him and beg for His mercy so that we might be pure.  We must never be self deceived in believing that we can cleanse and purify the heart from sin.  Only God can cleanse the unclean and purify the impure.  Let us not say, I, but rather, let us humbly confess to God who has the power of cleansing and purifying.

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