Día 2 · Lent: A Return to God
A Clean Heart (en inglés)
Por ahora, los textos de estas oraciones están en inglés. Solo publicamos en español las oraciones cuya traducción podemos verificar en una fuente ortodoxa publicada o en la Reina-Valera 1909.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.”Psalm 51:10-12 (50 LXX)
Reflexión (en inglés)
This is the prayer of someone who knows he cannot scrub himself clean by effort alone. Notice that the psalmist does not promise to repair his own heart; he asks God to create a new one. Honest repentance admits our weakness and then reaches for grace, trusting that the God who first made us can gladly remake us.
Una oración (en inglés)
O God, I cannot make my own heart clean, so I bring it to you just as it is. Create something new in me where I have grown tired or hard. Restore to me the joy I have misplaced, and steady me with a willing spirit when my resolve runs thin. I trust that you delight to make all things new, and that you can begin with me. Amen.
Llévalo contigo (en inglés)
Where am I tempted to rely on my own effort instead of asking God to do the changing in me?