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God gives us new days to do things differently. Days gone by are Water Under the Bridge. However, I did change the water in the bowl of my post I wrote yesterday, because I didn’t like its foul odor.
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. — Psalm 118:24
Psalms 24:1-5
The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
— A Psalm of David
Psalms 24:1-5,
“The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”
What is vanity here? It’s vain to trust in anything this world has, including placing confidence in one’s self to do the right thing. We can’t trust anything. We can’t trust that we would not be tempted if we had too much money for our pride. We can’t trust that we would not be tempted if we believed we were ‘hot looking’ and others treated us as being so. We can’t trust that we would not be tempted if others famed us greater than our humility could bear. Why is this so?
Jeremiah 17:9,
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
How then can a heart become pure? Or a soul not be lifted up unto vanity? Or deceit not become so pleasant to practice that it desensitizes a person’s conscience to the point of being as a rock-hard mountain too cold to move any longer after once having been molten lava able to flow in whatever direction gravity would take it?
When verse 5 of Psalm 24 states, “He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation” it doesn’t just mean blessing and righteousness from God coming in the future, it also includes the present time, and eternity past. God is not bound by time. We are. That’s why life as we know it is a process, but God is not . . . He is perfect (complete; not needing improvements). Everyone comes into this world impure, but not everyone leaves this world impure.
Lamentations 3:26,
“It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”
Micah 7:7,
“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”
Matthew 5:8,
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
Tick-tock, tick-tock . . .
Psalms 40:16, “Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.”
Psalms 70:4, “Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.”
So that’s where gladness comes from . . . even more than what Mr. Bean can give or anyone or anything else?!
Psalms 118:24, “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
This day is too beautiful for being inside and writing here! I don’t know where everyone else is, but I know where I’m going and who I’m going with!
