Cleanliness

"The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Saviour." Psalm 24:4-5

This picture is of my niece and nephew cats sitting on my husbands lap and washing each other. Sometimes they do this to make the other one move, but sometimes they do this because they love each other!! This Bible verse gives us a reason to be clean, although I do not think it necessarily means literally clean in he physical sense, but in the spiritual sense. To try and live our lives holy and pleasing to God.

My children have a struggle with having showers, especially my son. I am not sure what it is, if it is the time it takes out of his day, or the effort, or the water, or the soap, but it can be a bit of a battle to get him to shower, and then we have to check he has actually showered. Maybe this Bible verse will convince him it is good to be clean to receive blessing from God!! I realise it doesn't work like this, but in the same way it is difficult to be around people who smell and are in need of a shower, God finds it difficult to be near us when we are not clean spiritually.... Just something to think about.