He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
The promise belongs to the one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted the soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully, and such a person shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Moral cleanness and sincerity, with rejection of vanity and deceit, mark those to whom blessing and righteousness for salvation are given. They are the ones who may ascend into the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place, identified as the generation that seeks Him and that seeks His face.
Those recipients walk uprightly and work righteousness, doing what is right while keeping and speaking truth in the heart and rejecting deceit. Their standing in the holy place is standing without fault before His throne, in whose mouth is found no guile. That guilelessness means refusing professional falseness and hollow hypocrisy, and not concealing conviction of duty for fear of persecution. It means maintaining principle at all hazard and following Jesus even when suffering for the truth, as partakers with Christ in His suffering and in His glory.
The verse reveals the greatness of God as the source from whom blessing and righteousness are received, and it calls for taking a stand under the rule of Christ. Those working on the side of Satan do not know what a fearful loss they are incurring. Those given to anarchy and war and strife will at the last great day see how many souls have been lost through failure to stand under His rule.
The promise belongs to the one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted the soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully, and such a person shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Moral cleanness and sincerity, with rejection of vanity and deceit, mark those to whom blessing and righteousness for salvation are given. They are the ones who may ascend into the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place, identified as the generation that seeks Him and that seeks His face.
Those recipients walk uprightly and work righteousness, doing what is right while keeping and speaking truth in the heart and rejecting deceit. Their standing in the holy place is standing without fault before His throne, in whose mouth is found no guile. That guilelessness means refusing professional falseness and hollow hypocrisy, and not concealing conviction of duty for fear of persecution. It means maintaining principle at all hazard and following Jesus even when suffering for the truth, as partakers with Christ in His suffering and in His glory.
The verse reveals the greatness of God as the source from whom blessing and righteousness are received, and it calls for taking a stand under the rule of Christ. Those working on the side of Satan do not know what a fearful loss they are incurring. Those given to anarchy and war and strife will at the last great day see how many souls have been lost through failure to stand under His rule.