These are not requirements for entering the tent of the Lord but
a description of what happens to those who abide there. Ones who slander and do
evil to friends, despising their neighbors, who charge for favors and take bribes
to pervert justice, prefer mansions in the valley to the tent on the hill.
Doing what is right and speaking the truth from the heart, walking the
blameless way, is produced by one’s proximity to the Lord who pitches the tent
in the first place. It is not a heavenly hill, but it is none-the-less a “hill
far away”. The One who really was blameless stood by his oath to save and in His
suffering death made the hill where the wicked had their way, holy. There is a
transformation which takes place when we consistently see the sunrise from that
Holy Hill and days are spent not in pursuing selfish desire but sacrificial
love, as in standing by an oath, even when it hurts.
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