HELEN SANDERS
11-30-2020
CLEAN HANDS
As a child I am sure you heard your Mother or Father tell you to “go wash your hands.” Maybe it was a teacher, but the principle that you needed to have “clean hands” was taught at a young age.
Another meaning for clean hands would indicate that someone had not done anything illegal. They weren’t involved in a crime, and their hands were clean.
God speaks about clean hands also. In Psalm 24 David is speaking. It is a beautiful psalm that each of us should memorize. It goes like this:
1A psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 3Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 9Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah “
David speaks of the creator, the King of Glory, and those that want to meet him will have to have clean hands along with other things. There is not one of us that have “clean hands.” We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23.) How sad, that because of our sin, our “dirty hands” we are separated from the one that created everything. Yet, he made a way for us to have “clean hands” and that is a gift from the creator, himself. When we receive Christ as our Savior, our “dirty hands” laden with sin are washed with the blood of Jesus and we are made “clean”. We aren’t separated from Him anymore. We are now seen with “clean hands.” What a wonderful day that is.
Do I have clean hands? Yes, because Jesus washed them. He will wash yours too if yours aren’t clean. Why not ask Him now.
