daily java

Daily Java:

Who may climb the mountain of the LORD?
      Who may stand in his holy place?
 Only those whose hands and hearts are pure,
      who do not worship idols
      and never tell lies.
 They will receive the LORD’s blessing
      and have a right relationship with God their savior.
 Such people may seek you
      and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob. (Psalm 24:3-6)

It is not what we do that saves us, it is who we are.

Who are the ones who will stand before God? Those, he says, that have clean hands and pure hearts, who have remained loyal to him in spite of what the world demands, who keeps his ethics true.

Coming to the world is not something that we earn, or something we accomplish. Yes, the Christian life is hard and it is, as the apostle Paul said, a fight.

But there is a mindset that the Christian has that is what saves him. It is not his actions, because all sin. Everybody has already made too many mistakes to be saved on merit. The few things we can do in this short life can never be enough to merit, or earn, eternity with God.

So what is the point? The point is that it is our attitudes, our mindsets, our character that saves us. It is the condition of our hearts that brings us close to God.

Those are the ones who have the proper relationship with the Lord. Those are the ones who seek him. Otherwise, we just seek what it is that we can do, what we can accomplish in him.

It is he who saves. When we recognize that, it takes all the pressure off of what we have to do. And we recognize that he loves us, even when we fail.

But as long as we are trying, as long as we are making the effort, we have his heart.

And he has ours.