Cleaning the Crevices of Your Heart

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When was the last time you prayed that kind of a prayer?  Do you pray it consistently, knowing that the Holy Spirit longs to have full rule and authority in your life?  Do you know that God requires your surrender of the "old" you in order for Him to create the "new" you?  He wants to give you a clean heart, but you must give up your right to your dirty one!

God wants to be Lord over those priorities that are elevated above Him.  He wants our sins that we have refused to bring to Him in repentance.  He wants those wrong attitudes that we continue to call our 'personality' or 'humanness.'  He wants our surrender, the same kind of surrender that He required of the rich young man [to give up what he least wanted to give up], the surrender that ultimately was required of Jesus.  He wants to overcome in us and bring victory to us in everything we do, think, and say that is not scripturally correct or aligned with His holiness.

I love how Oswald Chambers puts it:

 The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.  I am astounded at how ignorant we are about ourselves!  We do not know envy when we see it, or laziness, or pride.  Jesus reveals to us all that this body has been harboring before His grace began to work.  How many of us have learned to look in with courage?

(From Spiritual Healing:  The Surrender That Brings Victory--Chapter 6)