Today you get Psalm 51, the prayer David wrote after the prophet Nathan confronted him over Bathsheba, the most complete confession in Scripture, prayed by millions since.

Have mercy on me, O God. Create in me a pure heart. Do not read it as literature. Pray it as your own, slowly, because it was preserved precisely so you could.

Psalm 51 asks for something no discipline program offers: creation. Not patching, not managing, create in me a pure heart, the same verb as Genesis 1, because David knew his problem was not behavioral but cardiac. God's response to that kind of honesty is the whole gospel in advance: broken and contrite hearts He will not despise.

The woman at Bethany shows what a forgiven heart does next: it breaks the jar. Extravagance toward Jesus looks like waste to accountants and beauty to Him. So pray the psalm all the way through today, confession, creation, restored joy, and then find your own alabaster jar. Forgiven people pour.