Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a Five Day a Week, Daily Devotional, where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Okay, so let me ask you this. What do you think of when I say the words, clean living? Think of food, living a vegan lifestyle, not smoking or drinking. I want to challenge us today to think of

it in a bit broader and yet more specific terms, if that even makes sense. It's a really important

subject for us as believers, so let's get right into it. We've talked a little about Psalm 51 on the podcast before, but remember this chapter in the Bible was written by David after being confronted by the prophet Nathan over his sin with Bashsheba.

So David was familiar with a painful way of living in sin and apart from God and then repentance and coming back to God and how it felt to then

live again the right way. I love Psalm 51 because it's a reminder of the two ways of living and

such a picture of my own life through my journey with God. It's a beautiful reminder that truth

is the important thing. We can get around it and try to get out of it

for a time, but at the end of the day, not only will truth prevail, but it's the preferred way of living

because it does set us free in every way. It really does. This verse, creating me a clean heart,

O God, and renew a right spirit in me, Psalm 5110,

is a famous verse in this chapter.

It's us reading David's diary, really, really an intimate moment he's having to come back to God

and say, I need to return to clean living.

He's not talking about going on a diet and eating only plant-based food.

He's talking about where clean living really starts in the deepest core, the heart, and subsequently, it's where the other

clean living commitments start, I believe. When my heart is right with God, it directly correlates

with how much I want to honor my body with food. True story. And

honestly, like it or not, and I don't really like this very much, it's not about a diet. It's about

how much sugar I take in, for instance, or the quantity I eat at times when I'm feeling something

I need to pray about, but I eat a batch of cookies instead, eating all my feelings.

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