“Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.”
Psalm 51:6
Have you ever gone to a sawmill and watched them process timber?
They take a big log out of the woods that may have bumps and knots on it,
and they lay it on a cradle, running it through a saw, cutting off one side.
Then they bring it back, turn it, and run it through again to cut off another side.
When they’re finished, if you stand and look down it, it’s perfectly straight.
But if you look at the end of it, the heart is still crooked.
That’s the way it is with some individuals who are outwardly living the Christian life.
But Jeremiah 17:9 warns the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
We need regeneration.
We must be born again.
We need to give the Holy Spirit control of our life.
We need to be honest with ourselves, with others, and with God.
We need a greater love for God (and for others).
We need to trade in selfishness for selflessness.
We need a new heart.
Read Psalm 19:14 and pray it from your heart — that today you would
desire with everything within you to be pure in thought, word, and deed.
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
BREAD FOR BELIEVERS 
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