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Cleanse Our Hearts, O God 

3/9/08 Bro. Lee Dotson

Ps 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin .Ps 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 

This Psalm was written by King David after the prophet Nathan had gone to him, after his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba. David had committed a great sin in the eyes of the Lord. 

Yes, in his desires to fulfill the "lust of his flesh", he had broken at least two of God's Ten Commandments. Look at this man David ,a man that the Bible say was a "Man After God's Our Heart. 

It's obvious to me that David has been convicted by his sin and his guilt. The introduction before this Psalm says this is David's Psalm of repentance concerning his adulterous affair with Bathsheba. 

David had not fooled anyone, not even himself. He knew that what he did was wrong in God's eyes and in his own eyes. He knew that his disobedience and sin had broken God's heart, and broken his relationship with God. And as a result, his spirit and his heart were broken. In the spirit of repentance he asked God to "Create in him a clean heart and to renew a right spirit within his soul." 

David wrote, Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part. You will make me to know wisdom. (Vs 6) God wants to dismantle the strongholds of darkness in our inner beings and make us completely His ,so we can be set free. Sometimes we think we are serving God; but in the depths of our being there is anger, self-centeredness ,resentment, bitterness, confusion., and bondage.