Message Minute
Your Message Minute with Pastor Chris Byars
Psalm 51:10–11
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 51:10–11, MEV
Growing up these words are deeply embedded in my memory because I remember regularly singing them during the liturgy many Sunday mornings. These words carried me through a lot in my life and came to mind often even when I had walked away from Christianity. Yet God had planted these words in my heart and I was drawn back to Him through this and the people who prayed for me. In these words, we are given a promise. In our deepest moments of grief and anguish, these words can lift us out of despair and draw us to God. In them, we have a confession. We are not clean through anything we do, but God can restore us. He restores our hearts and our minds and we pray that He never cast us out. It is a realization that we deserve to be cast out. Like the prodigal son who squandered all of his inheritance returning to his father knowing he deserved nothing but hoped for mercy, so do we return to our Father seeking His mercy. When we are received by our Heavenly Father, He celebrates and washes us over with His abundant mercy. These words are the strongest promise of hope we can always count on. God will not cast out His chosen when we come to Him with a humble heart, but He will pour upon us all His glorious peace.
Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.