Create In Me A Clean Heart

By Carol Chkoreff

 

 

Thinking that my mind and my heart were in agreement and accord,

 I proceeded to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without Him being Lord.

 Stopping in my tracks, because my day had awakened with dark densities,

 the Lord clearly said, "Is your heart clean, freely forgiving propensities?"

 

 Propensities and abilities to offend our brothers and sisters is very common,

 it will happen many times if we live on Planet Earth among life's mammon.

 Learning and practicing the only sure remedy for success is our Lord's way,

 clearly He marked a beaten path through the Cross where forgiveness lay.

 

 Create in me a clean heart daily is no suggestion, but rather a command ,

holding sour thoughts under rights will place your life in the devil's land.

 Our Lord was clear about forgiveness in all the parts of our soul and mind,

 "freely you have been forgiven, now freely forgive" and there is no bind.

 

Bondage comes into our lives because we have inwardly chosen to cling,

to offensives that stung us and wounded our sense of justice before our King.

Having rights and desiring justice is a Heavenly calling and makes us feel,

like sojourners in a world upside down with a downward shift and a reel.

 

Nevertheless, our Lord calls us to keep our hearts pure gold with no alloy,

so that we can walk in the land of the living with a sense of purpose and joy.

Joy stealing with deep depression are the trademarks of our worst enemy's mark,

grave robbing our dead flesh, Jesus sets us free and gives us power to embark.

 

"I am clean" ex-drug addicts sing because they have been able to forgive debts,

debts of pains, woundings, misunderstandings and injustices born of evil bets.

 Create in me a clean heart and restore the joy of my salvation" I can sing,

 and now my heart and mind in agreement will declare the Heaven's ring.