COME INTO HIS HOLY PLACE

The most beautiful thought of my entire life is that God is in love with me! Wow! It is profoundly wonderful! God longs for us to experience his love along with all that he has for us! As a loving Father, he gives us clues to what people will be like who will live in His blessing.

Psalms 24:3-6 says, “Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. 5He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Savior. 6Such 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 our righteousness is as filthy rags before God. Isaiah 64:6 So then, where do clean hands and a 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 are 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 are where your life is heading. The current outcome of your life is a declaration of your dominant thoughts in the past. The power needed to transform your future and to have a life that looks like Christ is found in meditation on God’s thoughts towards you as expressed in his word. 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 meditate upon and humbly receive what he thinks about you! The only way to have a life that exemplifies Christ is to humbly surrender to God’s way of making us right with him through Jesus. Are you willing and ready for this kind of life? Surrender to God’s amazing love and grace today because that is what people who send the hill of the Lord and…

COME INTO HIS HOLY PLACE