Create In Me A Clean Heart – Keith Green

It baffles me why I haven’t done this sooner.  What is up with me?  What is going on?

This song has opened the doors to the power of confession more than any sermon or bible study.  Yeah a big statement I know and it’s not a slight against bible study or sermons, it’s just a fact that beyond the David story from which we get the Psalm emoting those sentiments, this song struck home that desperate desire to have a right relationship with God when things have fouled up.  The passion in Green’s singing, the lyrical content and the general mood of the piece does more than anything else in creating within my heart that deep well of yearning to be right with God.

Now I’m grateful to God that I am not condemned as I’m in Christ Jesus.  That does not leave me in a position to be lax and complacent about the nature of the relationship.  Recognising that everything I am and have comes from that relationship brings me back to the quest above all quests to know Him more so that I may love Him more.  That quest has its distractions and I’ve been distracted, but songs like this always bring me back to the heart of life and purpose of living.

So I’m grateful to God for David pouring his heart out in the light of his own indiscretions.  I am grateful to God that a man like Keith Green was able to record a modern update of that same song for mugs like me.  Most importantly of all I am grateful for an ever loving and forgiving God who will not cast me away from His presence or take His Holy Spirit from me as He has inextricably knitted me by His Spirit to His side. I am grateful that whenever I fall He restores me back to where I belong and that in me is the desire to abide and bear fruit a desire birthed and developed by His precious Holy Spirit.

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

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