Dear Friends,
Today’s devotional is a Scripture which is a prayer suitable for us all and a poetic meditation on that prayer. I think you will find it a blessing if you meditate on it. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Psalm 51:10 (ESV)

  Create in me a clean heart, O God,
  and renew a right spirit within me.

“How helpless guilty nature lies,

Unconscious of its load!

The heart, unchanged, can never rise

To happiness and God.

Can aught beneath a power divine

The stubborn will subdue?

‘Tis thine, Eternal Spirit, thine

To form the heart anew.

‘Tis thine the passions to recall,

And upwards bid them rise;

And make the scales of error fall

From reason’s darkened eyes.

To chase the shadow of death away,

And bid the sinner live;

A beam of heaven, a vital ray,

‘Tis thine alone to give.

O change these wretched hearts of ours,

And give them life divine;

Then shall our passions and our powers

Almighty Lord! be Thine.”

[Anne Steele]