“Who shall ascend to the mount of
the Lord? And who shall rise in His sacred place?”
(Psalms 24:3)
Again the Psalmist
brings up the common trait the Creator wants us to we share with Him in order
to dwell with Him, which is sacredness. The verse indicates that our
approaching to God is indeed an ascending journey or process through which we detach
ourselves from anything different or opposed to goodness as what makes us
sacred before Him.
In goodness we not
only ascend to elevate all levels and dimensions of consciousness but also rise
ourselves to what God wants us to experience in His sacredness. This we are not
able to fathom, conceive, discern or assimilate, for God’s sacredness belongs
to a level or dimension that we only will be able to grasp when we get there.
“He who has clean hands, and a pure
heart, that has not taken My Name in vain, and has not sworn deceitfully. He
shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his
redemption. Such is the generation of they that seek after Him, that seek Your
countenance, Jacob, forever.”
(24:4-6)
These verses teach us
that God associates His Name with the cleanliness, purity and truthfulness of
goodness. King David emphasizes once more that the sacredness of goodness is
only experienced by living with the ethical principle that it embodies. This
means that goodness does not compromise, blend, mix or cohabit with anything
different from its ways, means and attributes.
In goodness we are
blessed and God blesses us with the righteousness inherent in it, which by
definition is our redemption. We understand the latter as the eternal state of
consciousness free from the negative traits and trends of an evil approach to
life.
The eternal freedom in
goodness is the inheritance of those who pursue it as the way to live in God’s
promised final redemption. This is the inheritance of the descendants of Jacob
who seek to live in God’s goodness for eternity.
“I will wash my hands in innocence;
so I may encompass Your altar, O Lord. To hear in the voice of gratefulness,
and to tell all Your marvels. Lord, I love the habitation of Your house; and
the place, the temple of Your glory.” (26:6-8)
The ascent King David
mentioned before requires the innocence that is also inherent in goodness, as
it rules all aspects and expressions of life. We must wash and clean our
thoughts, emotions and feelings, along with refining our passions and
instincts, in order to turn them into vessels to be filled with the goodness of
love’s ways and attributes.
In goodness we enable
our consciousness to encompass and embrace the highest goodness of all, depicted
as the “altar” of God. This knowledge leads us to the gratefulness we owe to
our Creator, and in this sublime awareness we will be able to fathom His
magnificent marvels and the transcendence of His glory.
In love we also exalt
the jubilation of dwelling eternally in God’s house and His glory, as the
ultimate state of consciousness for which we came to this world to fulfill the
destiny He wants for us when we choose to live only in the permanent awareness of
goodness.
In this coming verse,
the Psalmist makes us realize that indeed such destiny is what we all should
yearn for and ask our Creator.
“One thing have I asked of the
Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the
days of my life, to behold the pleasantness of the Lord and to visit in
His temple.”
(27:4)
Once we come to this
awareness, we only live to yearn with the ardent desire of being eternally
close to our Creator. Hence we pray constantly to be freed from the
attachments, obsessions and addictions imposed by ego’s fantasies and illusions
that prevent us to embrace the freedom only goodness provides.
The lesson we learn
from them is to value and appreciate goodness as the moral freedom that empower
our discernment to lead our mind, thoughts, emotions, feelings and instincts
with the righteousness inherent in goodness.
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