Because He is Holy

          So I have been struggling a lot lately.  So I was sitting in Bible study tonight and was thinking of the things that I was struggling with.  And I forgot that I needed to lay everything down at the feet of Christ and he would take care of everything.  So this was the first night that I had been there that we had worked out of the book "The Prayer that Changes Everything - The Hidden Power of Praising God."  First of all let me say that I really needed this tonight, I needed to know this so that I could praise him in everything I do.  I also needed to know how to be Holy.

           So let me first off tell you that Julieanna found this scripture that I needed to read and it was amazing and it spoke straight to me.  It was Lamentations 3:25-36.  It said "The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.  It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.  Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; let him put his mouth in the dust-there may yet be hope; let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.  For the Lord will not cast off forever but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.  To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve."  I really needed the first line, "The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him."  Well bingo there it is.  I am saying that it is God's will, that everything in my life is God's will but I am really not practicing it.  I praise and worship him at Church and try to in my everyday life.  But I am not having that quiet time with God in a daily devotional.  I need to spend time with God.  (Which happens to be another God thing.)

          So then we kept on throughout the lesson and then I found a prayer that I wanted to start praying.  I was reading aloud to the group of women and I felt a layer of warmth come over me while I was reading this and hit me that I needed this tonight I needed this lesson to make me realize that I need to spend more time with Him.  So it says;  "Holy, holy, holy are You, Lord, and worthy to be praised.  I worship You and thank You that You are perfect and lovely and pure and wonderful.  The beauty of Your holiness is awesome beyond words.  Thank you for wanting to impart Your holiness to me.  Lord, I need your holiness to penetrate my life and wash away anything that is unholy in me.  Take away any attitude, and hidden sin of the mind, any activity or action that I do which is not what You would have for me.  I know You did not call me to uncleanness, but to holiness.  Show me the way to holiness in my own life.  Make me into a holy person who is separate from anything that separates me from You.  Enable me to reject whatever is not Your best for my life so that I can be a partaker of Your holiness.  I don't want to limit what You desire to do in me because of any sin or impurity of character.  help me to be holy as You are holy.  Establish my heart 'holy and blameless' before You.  Give me clean hands and a pure and humble heart."  And of course this makes me think of a song that I have fallen to my knees over because it was an amazing song.  So I waited before I shared it because we needed to finish the lesson.  So then I saw another scripture in our lesson. Which read;

"Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?  Or who may stand in His holy place?  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully." - Psalm 24:3-4

That was it....I have tell them about the song Give us clean hands.  This song has been sung by a bunch of people but my favorite version is that of Mark Shultz.  This song has had me on my knees balling my eyes out asking God to give me clean hands and a pure heart.  So here is the song.

          Okay so on a side note.  When I said earlier that this was a God thing.  We just spoke on Wednesday night that we needed to be doing a daily devotional with God.  That we needed that quiet time with him.  Why am I so stubborn?  Why can't I listen when God speaks to me the first time?  Instead it took me 2 times for me to listen to him. 

           So Lord I pray that you can give me clean hands and a pure heart that I may start learning how to be Holy like you are Lord.  Also give me the discipline to start spending more time with you on a daily basis.