Coming Into Worship

Many think that worshipping God can be something easy...something that everyone can do. And its true, you can worship God easily, but are you doing it with a pure heart? I read a devotional today that really opened my eyes. I can go to church all I want, and praise God all I want, but am I really doing it with a pure heart? Have I really repented from my sins and in right terms with God? Can a someone who has not repented just go up to God and be with Him? Does the bible not say that we must repent? I truly thought about this. What is the purpose of worshipping when we know deep in our hearts that we are in wrong with God? Can we really get close to God when we are stuck in our sin? Its not just a feeling, its not just doing it. Of course God wants us to come to Him and everything, but He also wants us to come with pure hearts and searching for forgiveness. Humbling ourselves is sort of a sum up of what we need to do.

Psalms 24:3-4
3 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD ? Who may stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.

These questions are amazing. I love the question of who may stand in His holy palce...we really don't even deserve to, but He wants us to! He who has clean hands and a pure heart! Those who have repented of course! We must remember that God wants us to come to Him, and only He can make us pure and clean! He is the only one who can forgive us and bring total cleansing to us! Nothing we can do on our own can bring us to this, only God! But when we worship Him with unpure hearts...we are basically telling Him, I will praise and worship you, but I don't want to give up the things that I do....so...are you telling God this? If so, ask Him to bring your heart to a want of repentance!