When people come to your house, you make special accommodations for their needs.
Even if it’s an inconvenience to you, you want to treat them special as guests. Every day in your house, and every day of your life, you get to live in your house, the way that you want to. But there are days where you have guests and you accommodate them. So if you have a dog and your guest has allergies to dogs, you put your dog up somewhere where normally you would let them roam around. Or if your guest is cold, then you would turn up the heat a little bit to accommodate them.
We accommodate God in our hearts by ensuring that there’s nothing offensive in our hearts to Him. What would offend God? Well, it’s sin. How do we get rid of that sin? We let Him into our hearts to empower us and show us the Way. We can pray the words of Psalm 51:10:
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10 ESV)
Jesus doesn’t just forgive us of our sins and clean up our hearts. He gives us the power to live holy and set apart lives that develop hearts that accommodate God. When we let Christ into our hearts, we have the power to overcome sin and enjoy free fellowship with God. Today, I encourage you to let God cleanse your heart so that you can freely welcome His spirit in.
Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for cleansing my heart so that I can be free of sin and giving me Your power through the Holy Spirit to overcome it. In Jesus Christ’s Name, I pray, Amen.