Seek the Lord

Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?
Who may stand in his Holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who does not lift up his soul to an Idol or swear by what is false.
He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God his Savior.
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
Who seek your face, O God of Jacob.

Psalm 24:3-6


The Holy Hill was the site of the Jerusalem temple, the place in the Old Testament where, prior to the birth and death and resurrection of Jesus, the Israelites would go to meet God and seek redemption and forgiveness for their sins. The good news today is that you no longer need to go to a temple to meet God; you don’t have to climb a hill or go to a sacred place because if you have accepted Jesus then the same God that the Israelites would meet in the Holy Temple is now living inside your heart. In First Corinthians 3:16, the apostle Paul tells us that we are now God’s temple and that God’s Spirit now lives in all who have accepted and believe in Jesus. Clean hands represent guiltless actions and a pure heart is revealed by having the right attitudes and motives for how you live your life. The cool thing today is that if you ask Him then God will change, heal and transform your heart through His Word and by His Spirit in order that you would see and know that God is real and living inside of you as you seek to know and love Him more in this life. Jesus tells us himself in Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Now, I don’t know about you but that is my heart's desire today – to see Almighty God living in and through the lives of His people today – to see Him healing, transforming, comforting and restoring the hearts of His people for whom He died to set them free from the sin and bondage of this fallen world in which we live. Seek God’s face today – ask Him for clean hands and a pure heart in order that you too would see God alive and active in your own life in a way that His love is reflected to the people in the world around you who so desperately need a Savior.

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