clean. pure...

I got the line of a praise/worship song I learned several years ago stuck in my head, so I sat down and began to strum it on Roger’s guitar, then decided to look up the song online as to remember the rest of the lyrics (surely the eight lines I could remember were not all of the song…)  Turns out, there were only a couple lines that I was forgetting… usually I dismiss songs that repeat as being shallow. This one, however, should not be taken as such, nor made into such…

We bow our hearts. We bend our knees. Oh Spirit come make us humble.
We turn our eyes, From evil things. Oh Lord we cast down our idols.

Give us clean hands. Give us pure hearts. Let us not lift our souls to another.
Give us clean hands. Give us pure hearts. Let us not lift our souls to another
God let us be A generation that seeks, that seeks your face, O God of Jacob.
Oh God let us be A generation that seeks, That seeks your face, O God of Jacob…

Psalm 24
Of David. A psalm.

1The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it;
2for he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the waters.
3Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
4He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to an idol
or swear by what is false.
5He will receive blessing from the Lord
and vindication from God his Savior.
6Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek your face, O God of Jacob.                                      Selah
7Lift up your heads, O you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
8Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
9Lift up your heads, O you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
10Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.                                               Selah