The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 NIV
Search the desires if your own heart through the eyes of God. What do you come up with? Can we truly say that our desires are completely aligned with God's will? Actively dig through the desires of your heart and uproot all that we know is sinful: lust, gluttony, vanity, sloth, and so on. God will not reside where evil lies, for it is unclean.
This does not mean that the Holy Spirit will not dwell and work with in us. In fact, our unclean heart is the reason why the Spirit of God works within us, to wrought a new creature for God. This new creatures is clean and purified via the blood of Christ, and God will reside with us forever because we have she'd the weight of sin and done our best to live a clean and righteous life in the name of Jesus!
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