Until I Went Into the Sanctuary...

 

We often fall far short of having a clean heart. We ask God to create a clean heart in us because we know the dark, dirty depths we are living in, sinking in, struggling as if stuck in a mucky miry pit of the thickest quicksand. We beg God to keep our heads above the suffocating filth as only He can. In Psalms 73 we read that God is good to those who have clean hearts… then we read in the next moment of one struggling, of one whose feet are almost gone, whose steps slipped.  We can comprehend this all too well. We live in a world where evil reigns, that fact really isn't debatable.  Evil prospers. One who would walk with the Lord knows the rewards promised to them are eternal rewards, not temporal ones. As long as we live with our hearts outside of the sanctuary, we are can't fully comprehend our world, and our place in it.  When we go into the sanctuary we know the end of all evil is to come, the end of all temporal life will be over. To go into the sanctuary is to realize fully the difference between the temporal and the eternal. To go into the sanctuary is to draw as near to God as we can ever be. Ultimately we know this..

Rev 21:22  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it

Truth.  The sanctuary exists at all to reunite man and God. It is only in comprehending that we unite with God, with Christ, in the sanctuary that we comprehend that all without the sanctuary do not. 

By the grace of God may we go into the sanctuary and find comprehension all through the Holy Spirit.

Psa 73:1  A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 

Psa 73:2  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 

Psa 73:3  For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 

Psa 73:4  For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 

Psa 73:5  They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 

Psa 73:6  Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 

Psa 73:7  Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. 

Psa 73:8  They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. 

Psa 73:9  They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 

Psa 73:10  Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 

Psa 73:11  And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? 

Psa 73:12  Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 

Psa 73:13  Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 

Psa 73:14  For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. 

Psa 73:15  If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. 

Psa 73:16  When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 

Psa 73:17  Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 

Psa 73:18  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 

Psa 73:19  How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 

Psa 73:20  As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. 

Psa 73:21  Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. 

Psa 73:22  So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. 

Psa 73:23  Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 

Psa 73:24  Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 

Psa 73:25  Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 

Psa 73:26  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 

Psa 73:27  For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. 

Psa 73:28  But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.