Time To Ascend

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Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall ascend his Holy tabernacle, he that hath clean hand and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his heart unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully Ps 24: 3-4

God is calling us to a higher place, a better place, greater accomplishment, and a higher plane, but there are conditions to it. God is a lot more interested in taking you higher than you would ever desire, which is why he posed the question, who shall ascend? Shall you?  It is time to change your level, move higher!

Clean Hands

Clean suggests pure, innocent, blameless, clear, guiltless, this word is used when a person is liberated from slavery. Hands often suggest or point to work or manifestation, in other words, how a person manifests or is perceived. The works you do are the things you are seen with or identified with! Are they clean, clear, are you guiltless, do they show you to be liberated or free from slavery. Clean hands also point to the external life, your manifestations.

Pure in Heart: Matt 5:8,

A blameless internal life, intentions, motivations, the reason for doing what you do, your private life. The pure in heart will see God, God is above, in other words, you will ascend if your heart is pure. Is your heart pure? God wants to present us blameless in the end. People with a pure heart don’t perceive everything and everyone to be dirt. What is your heart condition, what is going on within?

The Truthful: Jn 8:32,

Some people make promises without any intention of keeping them, some even swear without a commitment in the heart. The people that will go up and mount are those that are truthful, sincere with themselves and with others. Truth is a shield, we should be mindful, to tell the truth always. Only the truth guarantees lasting deliverance in life. Are you sincere in your dealings, can you be trusted, can you be counted on, can your smooth talk and sweet tongue/words be backed up with the truth

Those not given to vanity. Eccl 12:8,

In other words, they have not made an idol out of anything that they possess. Vanity is the pursuit of the unworthy, an unusual attachment, commitment, or worship of anything or anyone aside from God. The gold of the Israelites was a golden moment until they turned it into an object of worship, whenever you transfer unusual affection/worship to anything or anyone, it becomes your idol and you are said to live after vanity. What do you make of the things that God has blessed you with, have they become your object of worship, have you transferred your affection to them?

Tit 1:5, Jude vs 24, Jn17:17, Ps 138:2, Ex 32:1-8, Rev 9:20