![]() ![]() So, baseboards and ceiling fans were dusted, closets purged, carpets steam cleaned, tile floors polished. Without the typical time constraints of years past, I came face to face with the unvarnished facts: I had no excuse to overlook ANYTHING. With the outbreak of Covid-19 and shelter-in-place orders, I decided to jumpstart my annual spring cleaning. So how do we get there? Come along with me. The psalmist David ranks a pure heart on par with clean hands, a dynamic duo that ushers God’s children into His holy place and assures us of His blessing. God’s word doesn’t stop with sanitized, even sanctified, hands. ![]() They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Savior. Psalm 24:3-5 says, 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. Yet this hyper focus on hand hygiene has transcended a purely physical orientation in me, evoking loftier thoughts of Scripture passages dealing with clean hands. Who knows but that one second short of the magic 30 might cause a crafty Covid-19 escapee to take up illegal residence? So I am doing my part to help prevent the spread, honoring guidelines set up by medical authorities. But a global pandemic leaves little margin for error. I thought I’d learned all I needed to know about hand washing in kindergarten. ![]()
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