May my life be a pleasing offering to You, reflecting Your righteousness and glory. Create in me a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Help me to surrender every idol and false god in my life, placing my full trust in You alone. Forgive me for the times when my hands have been stained with sin and my heart has been tainted by impurity.
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Prayerĭear God, I come before You with a humble heart, acknowledging my need for Your cleansing and purifying touch. Are there areas of your life that need cleansing? Are there idols or false gods that compete for your allegiance and trust? Take a moment to examine your heart before God, allowing His Spirit to reveal any impurity or falsehood that may hinder your intimacy with Him. Reflect on the state of your own heart and actions. Those who seek to stand before the Lord must rid themselves of all forms of idolatry and falsehood, fully trusting in the one true God. It's not merely outward conformity to religious rituals or appearances but a genuine transformation from within. Clean hands and a pure heart symbolize inner righteousness and honesty before God. In Psalm 24:3-4, we are presented with a profound question: who is worthy to stand in the presence of the Lord? The answer lies in the condition of one's heart and actions. Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,Īnd everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visitorphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.īut the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.ĭo not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others keep yourself pure. 3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.Īnd it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more,with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christįinally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
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Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.įor I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband,to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,Īll the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,Įven a child makes himself known by his acts,īy whether his conduct is pure and upright.īlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God Who does not lift up his soul to what is falseĪnd righteousness from the God of his salvation. Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,