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TODAY’S WORD…

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Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.

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– Psalm 51:10 (NRSV)

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REFLECTION…

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It is not innocence that makes us good

– if it were so, then none of us are good!

It is the acceptance of God’s grace in our hearts

– the grace which helps us recognise and acknowledge our weaknesses,

and which gives us the energy to persistently fight all impurity.

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It is the grace of God

that builds up our faith and determination

to ignore that cunning voice that insistently scoffs at our contrition,

as it sneeringly whispers: “Hypocrite!”

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Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and stop me from thinking that my sins are just small vices,

for it is these continuous iniquities

that can prove to be the worst and most fatal.

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Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.

This is a prayer of the true penitent;

a prayer of wonderful faith in God’s pardoning love;

a prayer of bold hope in God’s healing grace

which cleanses and renews the heart

and keeps us close to Him.

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REPETITIVE PRAYER FOR TODAY…

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Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.

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