JOB 17
9 “Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
HOLD ON TO CLEAN HANDS
Job is one of my favourite characters in the Bible. He went through so much! Allied to that he had a difficult wife. It seems that she went the course with him as he had more children at the end!
He also had the three friends. These guys were ok… until they started talking!!!.
Do you remember what Job’s wife said to him at the end of chapter 2, “Curse God and die.”
Do you remember what happened to Job at the end of the book?, although he was told off by God, the final word was that Job hadn’t sinned against God with his mouth.
David poses a wonderful question in Psalm 24:
3 Who 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.
Job was one who could stand in the holy place of the Lord?
Why? Because he had all the attributes outlined in verse 4 above.
If you have clean hands like Job had, you will grow stronger. Both Job and David were blessed by God, because their hearts were right with God.
How clean are your hearts and hands?
God bless
kk
JEREMIAH 17
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
THE HUMAN HEART
How often have we heard this phrase:
He/she has a good heart.
Jeremiah speaking over two thousand years ago, said these true words, he pulls no punches.
The human heart is deceitful, look at Romans 1：
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
You may hear people say they are good at heart, have you watched the news, been to a prison? The human heart is full of deceit, rebellion and unclean thoughts and motives.
So is there any hope for the human heart, God sees everything, nothing is hidden from him, if anyone could see inside your heart, they would never talk to you again, your thoughts, motives and actions would not be a pretty sight, they aren’t to God either.
So what’s to be done, is there any hope? Christianity is the only answer, why? it addresses the heart of the problem, it deals with the blackness of the human heart, Jesus died and rose again, so man could have a new relationship and a new heart, the prophet Ezekiel said in chapter 36:
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Every believer has had a heart transplant, the old heart has been replaced and the new one put in, does that mean we don’t sin and fail, no our mind hasn’t been and that is being changed constantly as we are renewed by the word of God. Romans 12:2
My question is, have you had a heart transplant, you can only get one by coming to the foot of the cross in faith and repentance.
Come and have a heart transplant today.
God bless you
KK