# Psalm 51:10-12 Meaning?

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The word ‘create’ in Psalm 51:10 is the same one used in Genesis. David is asking God to make something new out of nothing. He knows he can’t manufacture a clean heart on his own, so he asks God to do it.

David wrote worship songs while carrying that sin. We’re good at functioning inside our own blind spots, which is why Nathan mattered. The rebuild started when someone loved David enough to look at him and say ‘you are the man’ (see [this](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/how-to-truly-repent-sins/1687)).

Then in verse 12 he asks for the joy back. Sin made him hollow. God gives that joy back whole.

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