![]() ![]() When I do have “dirt” that i must deal with, well it takes more than running water over my hands! I don’t have to handle dirty or mud to get dirty. I have noticed that my hand naturally get dirty when I walk around in this world. The Holy Spirit is our guide to us, letting us know whether we are really cleansed for worship. I hand to “get ready to eat.” Washing my face and hands was my responsibility – of course I got inspected and if I was not clean I had to do it over. “come to the dinner table” with dirty hands. We must have clean hands – I never was allowed to c As a pastor I love hearing the wonderful worship songs and the genuine praise of people toward God – I’m just not sure it is accomplished by strobe lights and fog machines! We come sliding into the pew and are no more ready to worship than the man on the moon – then the music guy is trying to “pump us up to sing louder” – truthfully I’m not ready to sing many times until after the song service is over. I am not sure how many believers think about what they are doing when the “go to church.” Usually there has been a lot of activity and emotions in trying to get the family ready on time. If we are to “approach the House of the LORD if we are to come into His presence,” we must be cleansed and pure. Feelings lie all the time to us they cannot be trusted to verify a godly experience. If a person knows the Lord Jesus Christ – they should already KNOW the Spirit and not need to “feel” the Spirit. I hear too much about people wanting to “feel” the Spirit. I believe that we have made worship all about us, rather than about God and His majestic power and love. Thinking of God on His throne who is worthy & righteous, holy or without guile to stand before the Holiness of God Almighty ? Of course the rhetorical questions have the same answer 0 no one. “Who may stand in His holy place?” The second question makes us evaluate if we are worthy to stand in his presence. Coming to the Temple – more importantly before the LORD’s sanctuary, people did not nonchalantly rush into the presence of the LORD. The Jews had a very rigid practice of ceremonially “washing” in large vats to cleanse themselves before worship. The author asks us some questions – Who may ascend to the hill of the LORD – in other words who can come to the LORD’s Temple – thinking of Jerusalem and Temple Mount. ………We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values, we will be prepared to make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation.Psalms 24 – I don’t normally post twice in one week, but Psalm 24’s message of clean hands & a pure heart compel me to do so. And like it say’s in the end of the Young Women’s theme My prayer to each of you, is that you can remember the importance of this Scripture and stay the beautiful, clean and pure in heart Young Women that you are. ![]() In Psalms 24:3-4 we read Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. We will “stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places……… We are daughters of a Heavenly Father who loves us, and we love him. Here is what the decal that went on the soap and the handout looked like In Primary I used this idea and but the CTR shield on the soap instead, we used it for an invitation to a baptism fireside. You can use it for different things! We handed it out on the chastity lesson. For a handout I printed this heart on tracing paper, cut them out, then put it on a bar of soap, I just bought the cheap bar of soap, the melted a candle, glued the heart on to the soap with stick glue, (it want stay that way very long ) then dipped the soap, front only into the melted wax, it sealed the heart on to the soap, I put it little bags then printed out the little saying below and tried it with a ribbon. ![]()
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