June 26, 2020
Psalm 86:11—“Unite my heart to fear your Name.” There are often disconnected parts of me. Like Paul in Romans 7:15-23, part of me revels in God’s will while other parts rebel against it. I take comfort in Paul and David—men who knew the same struggles I face.
It is by grace alone we were saved, and by grace alone we continue to be saved. I have not the power or wisdom to unite my fractured heart. I don’t even fully know it. In Psalm 139:23-24, David asks God to search his heart, while Jeremiah 17:9 reminds us that “The heart is deceitful above all things; who can know it?” Only God, through his Word, searches out those deep places within me that resist him, bringing all those fractious and dissonant elements to the single purpose of worshipping and glorifying Christ.
Without this unifying grace of the Holy Spirit, there can be no progress, no singleness of purpose, no direction; only wandering hopelessness. “Unite my heart to fear your Name;” that’s my prayer. “Gather up all those wayward, wandering parts of me into a single-minded devotion to You and Your purposes.” I am thankful that this is the kind of prayer my Heavenly Father loves to answer!
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