Who may worship
in your sanctuary, Lord?
Who may enter your presence
on your holy hill?
Psalm 15:1
The answer to that question is ... 'not me.'
Imagine trying to stroll right into the White House, to walk right up to the President, to talk to him about your day. Do you have that privilege, to barge right in?
No. On our own, we don't have the credentials ... to waltz right into the White House ... or to "enter [God's] presence."
Wait ... how many of us in our world understand that we don't have a right to just bustle right up to America's Commander and Chief to complain about every big and little thing ... but we think we're totally entitled to assail the throne room of heaven with yells, screams, and complaints about how the Creator of All Things runs His Universe.
It's a funny world. We have more respect for the local mayor's privacy than God's sovereignty.
"Who may enter [God's] presence ...?"
The Old Testament, from which the Psalms come, had a simple answer: those who are "2 blameless." (In other words, "not me" nor any fallible human.)
The New Testament has the same -- and yet totally different -- answer. "Who may enter [God's] presence ...?" The one who is "2 blameless." And there was precisely one who was blameless -- Jesus Christ. And this blameless one allows believers to "wear" His righteousness and enter the throne room of God.
Through Christ, I have the credentials. Through faith, I can enter the throne room of God. I can talk directly to the Creator.
In Christ's Love,
a guy who starts
his prayers, therefore,
with awe and thanksgiving
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