The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked [incurable-Strongs]: who can know it?[1] Je 17:9
Deceitful-3577 כָּזָב [kazab /kaw·zawb/] 1 a lie, untruth, falsehood, deceptive thing.- Strongs Concordance
Desperately wicked. 605 אָנוּשׁ, אָנַשׁ [’anash /aw·nash/] 1 to be weak, sick, frail. 1a (Qal). 1a1 to be incurable. 1a2 to be sick. 1a3 desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick - Strongs Concordance
My heart is incurable. Sheesh! And don't I know it!!! Rather than discouraging, the fact that my heart is incurable gives me hope. I cannot strain, stress, huff and puff enough to get my heart un-wicked. It cannot be done. It is impossible and so why even try? My only recourse is to give it to YOU and let YOU clean it up for me. Sigh. What a relief.
Change my heart O God
Make it ever new
Change my heart O God
May I be like YOU.
Here it is again. It is all about YOU and what YOU can do. Not about me and what I can do.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.[2] Je 13:23
I CAN'T do good/be good any more than a leopard can change his spots. My heart is full of black ugly spots and I have absolutely no power to change my heart. Only YOU can do that.
You are the potter
I am the clay
Mold me and make me
That is what I pray.
YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR HEART, you cannot of yourself give to God its affections; but you can CHOOSE to serve Him. You can give Him your will; He will then work in you to will and to do according to His good pleasure. SC 47 (Ezek. 11:19)
What good news!!!!!
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.[3] Je 30:12
The sinfulness of my heart is incurable. I am terminally wicked and only my great Physician can heal me. O Jesus, please heal my broken and wounded heart. I know that my only hope is in you.
They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matt. 9:12
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