SEEKING GOD THROUGH A BROKEN SPIRIT

This week, I am exploring what God says about SEEKING HIM. As I enter prayer now, I reflect on God’s instruction: “Even now,’ declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” 

Lord, let me seek after You with all my heart.   

I pray I would hear from You as I seek You today. 

Let me consider the words of God from Psalm 51:1-2,10-12,17: 

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. 

I know that I am a sinner, yet God loves me anyway.  He has great compassion, desiring to wash away my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.  He wants to renew my heart—to create in me a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 

In doing so, he removes the old heart and all that has helped it become undone—its fullness of anxious thoughts, angry moments and sometimes hopelessness and despair.  My old heart also contains pride, which makes me selfish and even greedy at times.  I long to change my heart, but it is only something the Lord can do. 

Lord, I desire to have a pure heart.  Please come in and cleanse my heart, so that I am always  

wholly devoted to You. 

God sees my plight, comes to break my spirit and my heart, and grant me a new, restored heart.  This new heart cleanses me of my selfish desires and allows me to seek Him with my whole heart.   

Lord, please restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit and a new heart to sustain me.  I desire to bless You with my prayers and my actions, by obeying You and following You always.   In Jesus’ Name, Amen.