David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 27 August 2022 | Above and Beyond Living: Have a Clean Heart

David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 27 August 2022 For Saturday| Turning Point Message By Dr. David Jeremiah

David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 27 August 2022, Saturday

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TOPIC: Above and Beyond Living: Have a Clean Heart

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

Recommended Reading: Mark 7:14-23

The Bible distinguishes between the externals and the internals of a human life. For example, when the prophet Samuel was choosing a king to replace Saul from among Jesse’s sons, God told him not to look at the outward appearance but at the heart of the candidates (1 Samuel 16:7). Likewise, when the Pharisees criticized Jesus’ disciples for not washing their hands and utensils at mealtime, Jesus said it was not the outward condition of a man that made him unclean, but the heart (Mark 7:1-23).

Jesus said, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts” and much more (Mark 7:21-23). His words call to mind the words of one of Israel’s greatest prophets, Jeremiah, who said that above all the human heart is deceitful “and desperately wicked.” The solution to a deceitful heart is not to wash one’s hands but to receive the gift of a new heart from God. Such a gift comes when one is born again by the Spirit of God.

Above all, seek the “clean heart” that can only come by the grace of God (Psalm 51:10).

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
William Gurnall

Read-Thru-the-Bible: Ezekiel 13 – 17

David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 27 August 2022 for Saturday Message. Turning Point God was founded in 1982 as the broadcast ministry of Dr. David Jeremiah to deliver the unchanging Word of God to an ever-changing world.

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