{"id":1542,"date":"2015-10-04T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/clean-hands-and-pure-hear-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:04:25","slug":"clean-hands-and-pure-hear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Clean Hands and a Pure Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 271 of Photo Inspirations — Clean Hands and a Pure Heart
\nEver find little finger prints on your glass doors or windows or walls?  Little chocolate or muddy hands had left their imprint.  The evidence was real.  We recognized those finger prints.<\/p>\n

Those were the times when those little guys had no idea of what those little finger prints would do. It took some maturing and repetitive correcting for them to finally learn to use a napkin or washcloth to clean away the evidence. <\/p>\n

Now, that we\u2019re all grown up — we know better.  Our clothes stay clean.  Our faces stay clean (well most of the time \u2013 thankfully good friends tell us if we have something on our face). <\/p>\n

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We tend to focus a lot on outward cleaning of our hands.  There are so many ways to clean them: antibacterial soap, body wash, bars of soap, foamy or gel soap.  But, this scripture refers to what\u2019s going on in our hearts.<\/p>\n

Psalm 24:3, 4 \u201cWho may climb the mountain of the Lord and enter where he lives?  Who may stand before the Lord?   ONLY THOSE WITH CLEAN HANDS AND PURE HEARTS, who do not practice dishonesty and lying.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are so many ways to clean our hearts:  medications, self help books, therapy, counseling, mental affirmations.  Of course all those things help, but letting God\u2019s super-power cleaning system do the work in us, then we\u2019ll really know \u201cclean hands and pure heart\u201d. <\/p>\n

Clean hands and pure hearts.  Those are the hands and hearts of those who know better than to allow the stains and dirtiness of the world \u2013 lying, dishonesty, cheating, envying, complaining, and deceiving \u2013 to \u201cmess up\u201d our relationship with God.  We do our best to keep our hands and hearts pure and clean, because the rewards for being \u201cgood kids\u201d are so great.  We get to sit at the \u201cadult\u201d table where the benefits are so many. <\/p>\n

My prayer is from Psalm 51:10 \u201cCreate in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me!\u201d  Clean hands on the outside and clean and pure hands and heart on the outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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