![]() The more you know of God’s character, the more you will realize the need to wash your hands and purify your heart before you can get close to Him. 1 Samuel 16:7: The LORD does not look at the things people look at. He spoke about the inward life as opposed to outward appearance. The closer you get to holy God, the more obvious even your smallest sins become. Clean Hands and Pure Hearts Context: Jesus has just warned of false teachers/prophets whose hearts would be revealed by the fruit in their lives. ![]() Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord. Lament and mourn and weep Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ![]() Cleanse your hands, you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. If, however, you are like the psalmist and understand the holiness of God, you will adjust your life to His standards and respond to His prompting so that you may have deeper fellowship with Him. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. If you follow only God’s basic commandments but resist every time God gives you specific, personal directions, you will never fully experience the depths of God’s Person. However, if you persist in your sin, sin will separate you from God and keep you from enjoying close fellowship with Him. The moment you become a Christian you begin a relationship with the Lord. Priests washed their hands before serving in the temple to symbolize that only those who were cleansed could worship holy God. In Old Testament times, one’s hands represented one’s activities. It is an affront to holy God to assume that we can indulge in our sin and blatantly disobey His word, then brazenly enter the holy of holies. There is no easy access to God for those with unclean hands or an impure heart. ![]() But both our hands and our hearts must be clean and pure. God has rigid requirements for those who want to enjoy intimate fellowship with Him. God has no use for the artificial praise of whitewashed tombs, fine-looking monuments that are full of dead mens bones. I ask today for a heart that isn’t filled with bitterness, resentment, or brokenness.Ī heart that is full of grace, forgiveness, and love for others.Ī heart that is attentive to hear Your voice whenever You need to speak to me.Ī heart that keeps no record of wrongs towards others.Ī heart that refuses to carry offense because of wrongs that were done to me.įather, may my hands be clean and my heart be pure before You.Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart. Give Us Clean Hands Lyrics: 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. I thank you for the price you paid for me on the crossĪnd what you have sacrificed so that I might live in eternity with you! Here is a prayer that I pray will help all of us as we seek God for clean hands and a pure heart. And while I fail at times, my greatest desire is to be able to stand before God with a pure heart. There is a prayer I've prayed over my life for decades: Psalm 24:4 " He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully." My prayer is that I would have “clean hands and a pure heart” in all that I do and say. ![]()
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