Wednesday, May 7th | Psalm 51

Passage:
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Song:
Create In Me (Psalm 51) by Paul Zach, iAmSon, and Jessica Fox

Lyrics:
Create in me
A clean heart oh Lord
Create in me
A clean heart oh Lord

Against you only I’ve sinned
Done evil in your side
But you’ve shown me what I’ve done
With mercy in your eyes
Then wash my shame and guilty way
My wearies all renew
From all my sin into your face
Let me turn to you

Create in me
A clean heart oh Lord
Create in me
A clean heart oh Lord

So I will give you what you asked
A humble broken heart
A spirit burning down to ash
With a flame oh God
Then ask will be your mercy Lord
Transforming all of me
To every act and every way
Your love and glories speaks

Create in me
A clean heart oh Lord (Create in me a clean heart oh Lord)
Create in me
A clean heart oh Lord (Create in me a clean heart oh Lord)

Have mercy on me
According to your endless love
Have mercy on me
According to your endless love
Oh have mercy on me
According to your endless love
Have mercy on me
According to your endless love
According to your endless love
According to your endless love

Prayer:
Almighty and most merciful Father, you hate nothing that you have made, nor desire the death of a sinner—look down with mercy upon me, and grant that I may turn from my wickedness and live. Forgive the days and years which I have passed in folly, idleness, and sin. Fill me with such sorrow for the time misspent, that I may amend my life according to your holy Word; strengthen me against habitual idleness, and enable me to direct my thoughts to the performance of every duty; that while I live I may serve you in the state to which you shall call me, and at last by a holy and happy death be delivered from the struggles and sorrows of this life, and obtain eternal happiness by your mercy, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
—Samuel Johnson