SUCH IS THE GENERATION WHO SEEK HIM
God is so in love with us! He longs for us to experience the love he has for us! As a loving Father, he gives us clues to what the generation of those who will live in His blessing will look like.
Psalms 24:3-6 says, "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. Selah”
It is impossible for our works to gain the favor of God and invoke his blessing! Isaiah lets us know that all of our righteousness is as filthy rags before God. (Isaiah 64:6) So then, where do the clean hands and pure heart come from? Becoming right before God is the act of receiving not doing. Listen to what Paul wrote to the Galatian church, "Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith.” (Galatians 3:11) Clean hands and a pure heart of the byproducts of faith, i.e. surrendering to the grace and love of God!
For a long time, I have argued that what you behold is what you will become! The thoughts that you allow to dominate your mind is where your life is heading. The current outcome of your life is a declaration of what you have thought about on a consistent basis. The power needed to transform your future and to have a life that looks like Christ is found in meditation on the word of God. This is how you are transformed into one who looks and acts just like your Heavenly Daddy!
Rom 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Don’t get caught up in the lie of trying to be good enough to deserve God! Use all your efforts to seek and receive his righteousness alone! We must surrender to the truth of God’s provision of making us right with himself–this is the only way to live a life that exemplifies him! Are you willing and ready for this kind of life? Surrender to God’s amazing love and grace today, Because...