{"id":806,"date":"2017-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/clean-hands-and-pure-hear\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:11:08","slug":"clean-hands-and-pure-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Clean Hands and a Pure Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019ve all found little finger prints on our glass doors or windows or walls. No sooner do we get those glass doors cleaned, than a little one comes along and puts his hands all over the door again. Little chocolate, play dough or muddy hands had left their imprint. The evidence was real. We recognized those finger prints. They were placed there by some little person that we loved.<\/p>\n

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

Now, that we\u2019re all grown up — we know better. We do pretty well with keeping our hands clean. Today, even grocery or big box stores, provide antibacterial wipes to clean off that grocery cart before you use it. And, many of us carry little bottles of hand sanitizer. But, really \u2013 I\u2019m not talking about those little dirty hands.<\/p>\n

Psalm 24:3, 4 says \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

Clean hands. Pure hearts. How can we clean up our hearts? There are many ways: medications, self-help books, therapy, counseling, and mental affirmations. Of course all those ways help our physical and mental thoughts, but when we let God use His super-powerful cleaning system do the work in us, then we\u2019ll show up with those \u201cclean hands and pure hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n

Clean hands and pure hearts. Those are the hands and hearts 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 God\u2019s good kids are so great. We get to sit at the \u201cadult\u201d table where the benefits are so many. He finds pleasure in His kids when they desire to please Him.<\/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. Pure heart. Sounds like someone had a good \u201ccleansing\u201d shower! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all found little finger prints on our glass doors or windows or walls. No sooner do we get those glass doors cleaned, than a little one comes along and puts his hands all over the door again. Little chocolate, play dough or muddy hands had left their imprint. The evidence was real. We recognized…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3879,4706,3370,2492,4707,4708,4709,3889,2499,2113,4710,3786],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3879","tag-clean-hands","tag-complain","tag-create-in-me-a-clean-heart","tag-deceiving","tag-envy","tag-finger-prints","tag-psalm-243","tag-psalm-5110","tag-pure-heart","tag-purity","tag-relationship-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}