Come into His Presence Psalm 24:3

3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place?



David asks a question, "Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord or stand in His Holy Place?" David is asking, "Who can come into the presence of the Lord?" This question has two aspects. First, perhaps he is asking, "Who can go to heaven" but more appropriately David is talking about coming into His presence in this life. Of coarse, we will not come into His presence in the life to come if we do not come to Him in this life today. As David asked about ascending to the hill of the Lord, he was thinking about Moses going up on Mt. Sinai to meet with the Lord.

Clean hands do not make a clean heart. David gives us a two-part answer to his question. Only God can give us a pure heart. In order to come into His presence, we have to allow Him to cleanse our hearts. Only He can take our hearts and make them pure. "Clean hands" is an effort on our part to do the things that the Lord would have us do as we become the person that the Lord would have us be.

It is impossible for us to come into the Lord's presence without both of these aspects being met. He has to clean us up and give us a new heart and we have to make every effort to walk in His statutes to come into His presence. When we do that we shall receive blessings from the Lord, which is what takes place when we come into the presence of the Lord!

God's purpose for creating this world is to make it a place of blessing for us. His purpose in creating us was so that He could have an outlet for His love, which is expressed in His blessings to us. All God wants is for us to come into His presence so that He can bless us and make us a blessing to Him and to one another!

Let us walk today with clean hands and allow God to have complete control of our lives, one decision at a time. As you and I come into His presence, He will bless us exceedingly abundantly more than we could ever ask or hope for!