Clean Hands and a Pure Heart

Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?

Who may stand in his holy place?
The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not trust in an idol
or swear by a false god. 

Psalm 24:3-4

While it is only natural for me to think that everyone wants to ascend to God and stand in front of Him, the reality is very few people do today.  In fact, our society seems to be pushing to make sure all the world knows that it is folly to think such and you are an old-fashioned traditionalist idiot not keeping up with the times for thinking such.  But, deep inside every person, I see that they want desperately to be fulfilled and know they have a purpose and are loved.  How everyone can so easily accept the pain of living and reject seeking Him which would be their fulfillment is difficult to understand.

The only way to “get to God” is to be cleansed and we are only clean when we have been “washed in the blood of the Lamb.”  I really miss those old-tyme religion songs sometimes.

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow’r?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Refrain: Are you washed in the blood,
In the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

You want “clean hands and a pure heart”?  Then you need Jesus.  There is no other way.  And so my mind then rings with the more current song from Mercy Me, “Give Us Clean Hands”.  This song also speaks to the idol portion of verse 4.

We bow our Hearts
We bend our knees
Oh Spirit come make us humble
We turn our eyes from evil things
Oh Lord we cast down our idols

So give us clean hands
Give us pure hearts
Let us not lift our souls to another
Give us clean hands
Give us pure hearts
Let us not lift our souls to another
And God let us be
A generation that seeks
That seeks your face
Oh God of Jacob
And God let us be
A generation that seeks
That seeks your face
Oh God of Jacob

Trust today in the purification of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus so that you might have clean hands and a pure heart.  Trust solely in Him as the one and only true living God.