Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Nathan's rebuke roused David from a spiritual torpor into which he had sunk for a long time. Seeing the magnitude of his guilt, he turns to God's infinite mercy as his only ground for hope, knowing he deserves multiplied condemnation and might justly be cast off forever.
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Commenting on Psalm 51:1-19
Sin has so destroyed us that the Creator must make us anew. I do not ask Him merely to clean my old heart; I am too experienced in the hopelessness of the old nature. Lord, bury the dead thing and create something entirely fresh within me.
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Hyssop sprinkled water on the unclean to restore them. David prays the blood of Christ, applied by living faith, would cleanse him as surely as that ceremony cleansed the leper. If washed in that fountain, he shall be whiter than snow, not merely acquitted but accepted.
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Commenting on Psalm 51:7-13