Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
David recognises that his problem runs deep. He needs more than forgiveness of sinful acts. He needs his heart to be transformed. Like David, we are powerless to change our own hearts. Maybe we can disicpline ourselves for a while to modify certain behaviour, but if the sinful desires remain in the heart then it's only a matter of time until we fail or it manifests itself in a different way. We need God to change our heart. the good news is that he can and will. the gospel is not that we receive forgiveness and then have to do a better job next time. We receive the Holy Spirit who empowers us to change
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?
No one.
But...
Ezekiel 36:26-27
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
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