3 essential things in a servant of God

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 "Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? 
He who has clean hands and a pure hear, and do not surrender to lie, or act falsely.“
Psalms 24: 3, 4.

God shows us three essential things to maintain our faith and our salvation,

clean hands, a pureheart and holy mind. We can understand that one 

depends on the other; we cannot say that we have clean heart and mind holy,

but our handsare dirty, for if the heart and the mind are pure, we will not do

wrong is it not?

If we act badly, it comes from a contaminated mind or an evil heart; 

consequently it is three in one, because the deficiency of one implies

the absence of the other.

Let's see what each one means in practice?

Clean hands – this is not about personal hygiene, but your life free from sin.

It means that your actions are fair and righteous, your conduct is in

accordance with the word of God and you do not practice what is wrong;

there is no “dirt” in your life.

Pure heart - a pure heart is free from slander, it is to have an upright and

sincere heart, far from the appearance of evil. It’s you not feeding bad feelings.

Such a heart does not live in the danger area, it flees from temptation and

shuns evil, because it respects the sanctity of God.

Holy mind – it is you rejecting negative thoughts, not feeding sinful thoughts.

To keep your holy mind you must be strong , thoughts are thrown by the

devil, but it's up to you to reject them immediately , keeping your thoughts

away from the influence of evil.

Here is the verse that speaks clearly on what we ought to think to keep our

mind separate from evil.

"Finally , brothers , whatever is true , whatever is noble, whatever things are

 just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever things are of good report;

if there be any virtue, and ifthere be any praise , think on these things "

 Philippians 4 : 8.

All of this is our responsibility; we cannot blame anyone for our evil deeds,

or because our hearts are dirty or our mind contaminated.

Each one of us has a duty to keep up with all these three virtues for our

own good.