"Create in me a clean heart o God" has been the cry and song of many saints in all ages. King David who was close to the heart of God had this passionate heart cry towards God and it will be every one's heart cry who are passionate after God (Acts13:22).
So what is a clean heart? A clean heart is not a heart that never sins because the Bible says that "...there is not a just man on earth who does good [always] and does not sin [at any time]." (Eccl 7:20), but it is one that is transperant before the Lord and always approaches Him in its tainted state to get a cleansing from God alone. The man with a clean heart will always try to confess his know sins as soon as he realises that he has sinned.
King David used to do that and thus he said, " I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah" (Psa 32:5). People who live with a clean heart as a lifestyle will feel a alien feeling inside their bones and will become strengthless in their sinful state. Because of lacking God's Presence which they used to enjoy while in their clean state, will start to groan to God inorder to bring back His Presence to them (Psa 32:3-4).
The moment a person confesses his sins, it immediately becomes forgiven, covered and cleansed totally from us (Psa 32:1; 1 John 1:9). God knows all our sins even before we ever confess to Him, but confession is a legal act of agreeing with God's righteousness and our sinfulness which we have allowed to come in to us. It is indeed humility to acknowledge our sinful failings to God. So once we agree with God about our failings and inability to maintain rigteousness, legally we allow God to impute His very own righteousness in to our spiritual account that is recorded in heaven and executed on earth (Rom 4:5-8; Psa 32:2). God could be just and also justify us by giving us His own righteousness positionally whenever we need it because He substituted His Son as that substitute sacrifice to legally pay for all of our sins (Rom 3:26). The next time you are in to sin, run to the throne of Grace which is in heaven through your spirit and receive much grace in times of your need (Heb 10:19, 22-23; Heb 4:14-16). Here Grace is God's righteousness received freely at the point of our need. This is the true GRACE that we receive from God to live as God's child with a pure heart (James 4:6-10).
Once confession is done to God, the blood of Jesus is actively applied over our mind in the spiritual realm. This makes our mind to become pure and as righteous as God is (2 Cor 5:21). Through this process we maintain the righteousness of God positionally. No man can live in righteousness on his own perpetually as long as He lives in this physical body that has inherited the sin nature from our forefather Adam, but because of what Jesus has acheived for us on the cross of Calvary now we can live as the very righteousness of God positionally through our conscious willing confession to God whenever we sin (Rom 5:18-19, 21).
So keeping a pure heart is a pre-requisite to see the work and activities of God constanly in our life (Heb 12:14-15).
"He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray, and he who will be constant in prayer shall know what it is to have a pure heart." - Pere la Combe
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