Change My Heart Oh God (Top 100 Praise & Worship Songs 2012 Edition Album Version) Biblical Review
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Shaped Into His Likeness
The song is a prayer for God to shape and renew the singer, making them more like the Lord.
Strengths
2Its prayer for God’s shaping work presents transformation as something God works within believers.
Its requests for a clean heart, renewed spirit, and likeness to the Lord give the song a clear focus on spiritual renewal.
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prayer or petitionSupportedIsaiah uses the potter-and-clay image for God and his people, and Philippians says God works within believers. Together they support this prayer for God’s shaping work.
Jeremiah 18:1–6
Related themePartly matches in contextJeremiah applies the potter-and-clay image to God’s authority over Israel and nations; its corporate setting only partly matches this personal prayer.
Jeremiah 18:1–81The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.” 3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels. 4When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying, 6“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 7At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, 8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
Isaiah 64:8
Close paraphrasePartly matches in contextIsaiah calls God the potter and the people clay, while speaking corporately of Israel in a prayer for mercy.
Isaiah 64:6–106For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. 8But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand. 9Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people. 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Philippians 2:12–13
Related themeMatches in contextPaul says God works in believers to will and act for his good pleasure, supporting the prayer for God’s work within.
Philippians 2:10–1510that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, 11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 12So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 14Do all things without complaining and arguing, 15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
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prayer or petitionSupportedPsalm 51 asks God for a clean heart and renewed spirit; Ezekiel describes God giving a new heart, and Paul describes transformation into the Lord’s image. These support the prayer’s requests for renewal and likeness.
Ezekiel 36:26–27
Related themePartly matches in contextEzekiel describes God giving Israel a new heart and Spirit in a restoration promise, supporting renewal while addressing a corporate covenant setting.
Ezekiel 36:24–2924“‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them. 28You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God. 29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
Psalms 51:10–12
Close paraphraseMatches in contextPsalm 51 directly asks God for a clean heart, a renewed spirit, and a willing spirit.
Psalms 51:8–148Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice. 9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. 10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. 11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. 12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. 13Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you. 14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 3:18
Related themeMatches in contextPaul describes believers being transformed into the Lord’s image, supporting the prayer to become like God.
2 Corinthians 3:16–1816But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.