“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10)
What amazes me is what I learn in teaching the little ones at our church. In attempting to make the Bible accounts come alive, in language they understand, I gain much deeper insights into what God is really trying to teach me.
Like the lesson we had on God creating the world.
To help them grasp the grand scope of what God did, we learned together that to “create” is to make something out of nothing. God did not re-work the world. God did not gather up bits and pieces of worlds that had previously existed. God did not need to use things manufactured or produced by anyone else. What He creates, He does out of His divine abilities.
Webster uses other words to define create: “To bring into existence or to produce through imaginative skill.”
I still grasp the concept of Him making something out of nothing…and today’s verse backs that definition up with concrete and steel.
You see, in regards to my heart, He had to make something out of nothing. He had nothing of any value to work with. He couldn’t use a piece of my heart. He provided me with a new heart. He had to re-wire me in order for this new heart to function in my body. He is constantly training me in the workings of this new creation He has placed within me.
The Bible tells us all was void before He created the world; blackness was all around. The same was true of my heart before He entered in.
Malinda Edgell
Illinois
PRAY TOGETHER: January is almost gone. Has your life honored God this month? Talk to the Lord concerning what needs to change.
