Devotion Corner

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Many demand that God proves His existence through performing great signs and wonders. Such souls ignore the magnitude of proofs that surround them every day. Proofs such as the complexity of the eye, that looks back at us in the bathroom mirror each morning. Or the amazing intricacy of the human hand, which as Sir Issac Newton observed, is all the proof needed to show that we are created by an all-powerful God. 

Yet these incredible proofs and many more, pale in comparison to the greatest miracle of all. That miracle being the regeneration of the sinful heart. As C.H Spurgeon noted, the universe did not resist its creation by God; yet the human heart will resist His wondrous grace. The miracle of the creation of a clean heart in a once wicked sinner, is far greater than the creation of even the greatest galaxy in the heavens! God overcame our reluctance, fear and resistance, in His almighty love, to create in us a heart free from the stain of sin.

In this stunning creation, our spirit, once dead in its sins before God, is renewed. It is renewed by the blood of Christ Jesus. In this renewal we are restored to communion with our Heavenly Father. A joyous union that Adam lost in Eden, but Jesus Christ restored at Calvary. Though now our communion with God is not only as Creator and created, but also as Redeemer and redeemed. Through salvation in Christ Jesus, we know the wonders of God far deeper than Adam did in Eden, or even the angels of Heaven! Surely, this is the greatest proof of God’s existence! A proof that declares its truth through the changed lives of the redeemed in Christ Jesus. Amen.