8月4日
标 题：手洁心清
经 节：谁能登耶和华的山？谁能站在祂的圣所？就是手洁心清……的人。（诗篇廿四篇3～4节）
神严格地要求那些想要享受与神有亲密关系的人。那些手不洁、心不清的人很难见到神。倘若耽溺于罪恶及厚颜地违背神的话，又胆敢厚颜无耻地进入至圣所，这是公然地侮辱神。在旧约时代，一个人的手代表一个人的作为。清洁的手象征纯全的作为。祭司要进入圣殿服事之前，要洗手。这象征著，只有那些洁净的人，才能敬拜圣洁的神。
亲近神是有层次的。当你成为基督徒的那一刻，你与神开始创建关系。然而，如果你继续犯罪，罪会隔离你与神，阻拦你享受与神亲密的关系。倘若你仅仅遵循神基本的命令，却每回都拒绝神给予你的特别个人指示，那么你永远不能与神创建更深的关系。若像诗篇中的诗人，了解神的圣洁，你会照着祂的标准去调整自己的生命，立即回应祂的指示，好与祂创建更深的关系。
愈亲近神，对自己的小罪就愈敏锐。愈了解神的本性，就愈了解在朝见神以前，手洁心清的重要性。
你是否愿意让全能神使你在祂面前全然洁净，好能享受与祂最亲密的关系？
Clean Hands; a Pure Heart
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. (Psalms 24:3-4a)
God has rigid requirements for those who want to enjoy intimate
fellowship with Him. There is no easy access to God for those with unclean
hands or an impure heart. It is an affront to holy God to assume that we can
indulge in our sin and blatantly disobey His word, then brazenly enter the holy
of holies. In Old Testament times, one’s hands represented one’s activities.
Clean hands symbolized pure activities. Priests washed their hands before
serving in the temple to symbolize that only those who were cleansed could
worship holy God.
There are levels of intimacy with God. The moment you become a Christian
you begin a relationship with the Lord. However, if you persist in your sin,
sin will separate you from God and keep you from enjoying close fellowship with
Him. If you follow only God’s basic commandments but resist every time God
gives you specific, personal directions, you will never fully experience the
depths of God’s Person. If, however, you are like the psalmist and understand
the holiness of God, you will adjust your life to His standards and respond to
His prompting so that you may have deeper fellowship with Him.
The closer you get to holy God, the more obvious even your smallest sins
become. The more you know of God’s character, the more you will realize the
need to wash your hands and purify your heart before you can get close to Him.
Are you willing for almighty God to make you absolutely pure before Him
so that you can enjoy the maximum possible relationship with Him?
