![]() ![]() Instead of trying to self-diagnose the condition of our heart, we should come to the Lord Jesus and open to Him. We may not even be able to tell when we’re not pure in heart. We’d probably all admit that our heart can be very complicated. So how can we be pure in heart? How to be pure in heart We start living for that thing, and the Lord is frustrated from growing in our heart. We may even ask the Lord to help us, not realizing we’ve lost sight of accomplishing His will and seeking Him as our unique goal. Eventually, it can become the main objective in our life, and then everything we do is driven by our desire to obtain it. But it’s possible for us to allow any one of them to occupy our heart more and more. These things aren’t wrong or sinful in and of themselves. Actually, our heart is not pure if it seeks anything other than the Lord Jesus.įor example, let’s say we want to achieve a certain advanced degree, attain a certain career milestone, or possess something we long for. Our heart can be made impure by all kinds of things, not just sinful or evil matters. This is for the kingdom of the heavens and accomplishes God’s will. In order for Christ to grow freely in us, we need to be pure in heart, that is, single in our purpose and our goal. The Bible tells us our heart is composed of our mind, emotion, will, and conscience. ![]() But Christ doesn’t just want to be received by us He also wants to grow in us, in our heart. When we believed in Jesus Christ as our Savior, we received Him into our human spirit and were born again with the divine life of God. Also, we need to be pure, single, in our heart that Christ may grow in us without frustration.” For the kingdom of the heavens we need to be poor in spirit, empty in our spirit, that we may receive Christ. “Our spirit is the organ by which we receive Christ (John 1:12 3:6), whereas our heart is the ground where Christ as the seed of life grows (13:19). ![]() The next part of note 1 on Matthew 5:8 tells us why we must be pure in our heart: It means we take Him as the unique goal of our life. To be pure in heart means our heart doesn’t seek anything other than the Lord Jesus. But if it’s gold plus something else, it’s not pure it’s an alloy, or a mixture. For instance, a gold ring may be described as pure gold if the ring has no other element besides gold in it. Here again we see that a pure heart is one that’s single, without any kind of mixture.Ī substance is pure only when it’s not mixed with any other material. “A pure heart is a single heart without mixture, a heart that seeks only the Lord and takes the Lord as the unique goal.” Note 3 on this verse in the Recovery Version says: “But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart.” When we’re single in purpose and have only one goal for God’s glory, we’re pure in heart. “To be pure in heart is to be single in purpose, to have the single goal of accomplishing God’s will for God’s glory (1 Cor. Note 1 on pure in Matthew 5:8 in the Recovery Version is very helpful. Let’s first see what it means to be pure in heart. Today we’ll read verses and notes from the New Testament Recovery Version to help us understand what it means to be pure in heart, and how this results in seeing God. “ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” In this post, we’ll explore the meaning of another blessing. In a previous post, we discussed the meaning of the very first blessing recorded in Matthew 5:3, “ Blessed are the poor in spirit.” These blessings are full of rich meaning for our Christian life today. The Sermon on the Mount, the traditional name for what Jesus spoke in Matthew chapters 5-7, begins with nine blessings known as the Beatitudes. ![]()
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