PSLAM CHAPTER 15

" O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?" The answer to this lies in Psalm 15. Like I blogged about in a previous chapter the bible is our blue print to life. All the answers to salvation and living a righteous life are in these pages. The question is not who will dwell in the tent with the Lord, no rather who will have the courage to follow the blueprint laid out to sit atop His holy hill? The type of person that the Lord wants with him is not perfect, far from it as all us humans are, but he is able to be genuine and speak from his heart. Just because one speaks from his hurt does not mean that he is always right. The fact that he had the courage to do so makes him honest, and God adores the honest man. Sometimes its hard for us to tell the truth in certain situations. It is easy to lie to save face or spare feelings, these half truths can begin to have a snowball effect and before you know it you find yourself telling one lie to cover up another. When that happens we have dug a hole of lies that is near impossible to get out. God doesn't have a place for the dishonest, we must have the courage to be honest. Our neighbors also deserve respect from us, we need not talk behind there back nor push them away. Our arms are to be open so they feel comfortable enough with us that they allow us to share the word. "nor takes up reproach against his friend;" This means that along with neighbors, we should not try and discredit our close friends. Being friends does not mean you have to always agree with that person. As a believer, and one who wants favor from God does mean that even in the midst of a disagreement you stay respectful to your friend and value you there opinion. We don't always have to agree with a friend  but we can take the time to understand their point of view. We often in the church turn people away with our know it all attitudes. Christianity is not an exclusive club that we have to keep people away from. Salvation is not a secret, its a gift. It is up to us that know of the gift to tell others, not to push them away because if prideful self agendas. The company we keep can also hamper our chances of being on that holy hill. How the Lord views us can be somewhat altered by the company we keep. Watch your circle because a person's qualities can be contagious. In football we say winning in contagious, but so is losing. The same thing is true in our walk. Sinning can be contagious so we have to stay conscience of the the people we let in our circle. Not so much turn them away, but influence them with the word before they can get to us. This holy hill the bible speaks of is not one that we work to get to so we can look down on "sinners". It is not a buffer between us and the unholy, it is our inheritance from our Father. Even though the hilltop is our goal we have to humble ourselves to get off the high horse long enough to come down and spread the blood of Jesus. It is not enough to pull yourself up, bring as many souls with you as you can. The devil is trying to so why not us too. God says if we walk blamelessly and do the right things we shall not be moved. Don't be moved.