Do you know the password?

"Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in."  v7                                                                       Psalm 24.  NKJV

In this incredible day of technology, we have passwords for everything; in fact, so many that most of us forget them. But they are vital for opening doors online and in buildings. We can do very little without them.
Really, it was no different in David's day. David wrote Psalm 24 signifying the return of the ark of the covenant from the Philistines back into the Israelites hands. (2 Samuel 6:11-18). It assumes that when a king approached the gates of a city, a voice would cry out, 'Open the gates.' From inside, a voice would reply, 'Who is there?' The answer would be, 'It is the king'. The doors would  then open.

The term, 'the King of Glory shall come in.' (v7) was fulfilled when:
(1) The ark of the Covenant returned to the Israelites.
(2) When Jesus ascended into Heaven. (Acts 1:9-10)
(3) And when an individual's heart opens to Jesus as King

When God is welcomed with open gates and doors, He is pleased to come in. When we draw near to Him, He draws near to us. (James 4:8) But this is where the password comes in - Jesus. He is the password; He has the key to Heaven. We'll never make it without the key; we'll never make it if we neglect the password. The question may be asked, 'Who is this King of Glory? Our answer must be Jesus.

But we need to clean up our act. We need to change things we know are not fit in the Kingdom of God. 'What things?' You may ask. The things that make us feel overwhelmed with guilt when we've done or said something we know is wrong. V3-5 says:

'Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? (4) He who has clean hands and a pure heart. Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol. Nor sworn deceitfully (5) He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of His salvation.'

It is clean up time. A time for refining our walk with Jesus. We have the password and we have His invitation. When we stand before a king, wouldn't we usually clean up our act? For Jesus, we need to!

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