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“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8

Our desire should be to see God. I’m not talking about seeing him in the sense we will see him in heaven, but see him as in the results of him in our lives.

A doctor may give you some medicine and say in a few days you should see improvement, meaning experience it.

That’s what we want, to experience God in our lives and it will take a pure heart.

What is a pure heart? One that does not have other things in it but love and faith towards God.

What’s the greatest commandment?

Matthew 22:34-40 ESV

34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

A pure heart is a heart that is fully devoted to God and filled with love for him.

How do we get a pure heart? It will happen by the grace of God through faith, asking God to create it in us and then yield to his work of grace by faith.

Let’s see what David wrote in the Psalms.

Psalm 51:10-19 English Standard Version

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,

    and renew a right[a] spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from your presence,

    and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

    and uphold me with a willing spirit.

A pure heart is a heart of peace and a heart that can enjoy God’s salvation. One of the reasons we don’t have peace is because our hearts are not pure, not full of God. There’s other things we still desire and it creates a war within us. 

1 Peter 2:11 ESV

11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

God’s goal and desire for us is to have peace which comes from a pure heart and faith in Christ. A pure heart has a sole desire for God. I’m not saying you can’t have a desire for a spouse or love a spouse but nothing has a place over God in your heart. And the love you have for your spouse or anyone else, is a godly love which he has given you.

Romans 5:5

5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

1 Timothy 1:5

“The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”

Acts 15

6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 7 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.

What is a pure heart? One that does not have other things in it but love and faith towards God.

Let's desire and believe God for a pure heart so that we can see more of Him in our lives.

Blessings in Christ,
Tim Dumas
https://hopeforhealingfaithforliving.com/