RENEW OUR HEARTS TO YOUR MERCY=O LORD

RENEW OUR HEARTS
TO YOUR MERCY=O LORD


Our God is a MERCIFUL GOD=
He LIVES mercy!


He BREATHES mercy on us
EVERY DAY of our lives


“A clean HEART
CREATE for me=
O God


And a steadfast SPIRIT
RENEW within me” Psalm 51:12


Psalm 51 is ONE of
The seven PENITENTIAL psalms=
And it means
“HAVE MERCY ON ME”


Thank God=we live with a
MERCIFUL GOD=a God who forgives=
A God who doesn't
HOLD our sins against us


ASKING for mercy means asking
That our sins=DELIBERATE immoral acts=
Be FORGIVEN


It also means EXPRESSING
LOVE in tangible ways


Our PLEA to God is
To ASK for forgiveness


From whatever KINDS of messes
We have in our lives


Our plea is that for God
To EXTEND MERCY to us
And that we BOTH give and receive=
Mercy to and with OTHERS


“PRAISE be to the Lord
For he has HEARD
My cry for MERCY” Psalm 28:6


“WHOEVER conceals their sins
Does not prosper


But the one
Who confesses
And RENOUNCES them


FINDS MERCY!” Proverbs 28:13


“Speak and act
As those who are going
To be judged


By the law
That gives FREEDOM


Because judgment without mercy
Will be SHOWN to anyone
Who has NOT BEEN MERCIFUL


MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT!” James 2:12-13


RENEW our hearts
To your MERCY=O Lord
And help us
Be MERCIFUL with others


MAYBE we need to ask
God to RENEW our HEARTS


To CLEAN OUT past judgments
And resentments=JUDGMENTAL HEARTS
So to speak


To clean out bitterness and
Self-righteous negativity


Yes LORD=help us be MERCIFUL=
PLEASE
Renew our hearts=in a MERCIFUL WAY


“You wearied yourself
By such going about


But you would NOT SAY=
'It is HOPELESS'


You found=
RENEWAL of your STRENGTH
And so
You did not faint” Isaiah 57:10


Lord=this SPIRITUAL HOUSECLEANING
Is tough work
To do on my/our own


Help me/HELP US FIND
A steadfast spiritual renewal


So that our hearts
Will have ROOM
FOR EASTER JOY!


In Jesus' name


Robert P. Wallman
3-18-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Patricia Livingston