Second, How do we do anything good in this life for those we love? For our neighbors? Our hands beautify our body and in turn we beautify our hands yet we do not beauty our hearts nor does our heart beautify our body. Our heart does not build homes, protect the house, tend gardens or type out emails and posts for the world to read. Our heart doesn’t tuck our kids in at night, our heart does not caress the face of our loved ones and our heart does not deliver groceries to an elderly neighbor. Yes, I know, we cannot live without it but follow me on this. While our heart is always working we rarely think about it and we do nothing tangible, nothing noticeable with it. Our heart is never visible and if it is then we have been in a very terrible accident or we are on the surgeon’s table with serious heart issues. In the past few years I look down at my hands and am often shocked by how much they have aged and I think, “When did I get my Dad’s hands?” We tend to the superficiality of our hands by manicuring them and we beautify them by polishing and painting them. We turned off the alarm, turned on the radio, washed our faces, brushed our teeth, styled our hair, put on clothes and tied our shoes. Most of us used our hands this morning to tend to our own needs and to beautify ourselves. We use our hands to build houses, to tend gardens and to build digital worlds on-line. Our hands care for our children and it is with our hands that we prepare meals in order to sustain ourselves and our families. Our hands are what we use to reach out to help our neighbor and to protect ourselves from those who seek to do us harm. Our hands are almost always visible to others. Not the distance between them but rather the huge gap between what they do and how they are seen. 5 He shall receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.…” (Psalm 24:4 NIV)įirst, notice the wide gap between your Hands and your Heart. “Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to falsehood, who does not swear deceitfully.
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