“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10.  Give me a clean heartSo I may serve TheeLord, fix my heartSo that I may be used by TheeFor I’m not worthyOf all these blessingsGive me a clean heart, Lord, And I’ll follow thee. The old gospel hymn,…

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18 Most of us remember the famous 1850 historical novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled “The Scarlett Letter.” The story recounts…

“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24. God knows, He cares, and He will show us the way! Have you ever found yourself saying, “Lord, search my heart, help me to…

The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:9. God is all that is good– the word of the Lord attests to His goodness: “And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God.” (Mark 10:8.) My friends, God’s goodness, enduring…

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 1 John 5:14-15. In my mind, I can still hear my…

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12. Goals and aspirations change as we grow older, my parents would say, that we would learn to understand things better with just a few more risings and settings of the sun. Youthful dreams are more aligned with the…

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 “Your word is your bond” is an old English phrase my father instilled in my heart….

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” 2 Corinthians 4:17. We are never promised that this journey of life will be free of hardship; the sun does not always shine, and the rain falls on both the just and the…

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31. My Father worked on the railroad, which took him away from home four to five days a week. He always…

“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14 There are times when someone speaks a positive and uplifting word to you, and it changes your entire day. We have all been there at one time or another….