Good morning.
Those who care, pursue pure things because it signifies they seek nothing but the best. Advertisers hustle their products as pure, claiming pure pleasure, pure satisfaction, pure sugar and pure soap. Animal breeders produce pure-blooded animals from dogs and cats to pigs. We consider pure gold and silver to have lasting value.
When a thing is pure, it is unmixed, uncontaminated or undefiled by anything foreign to itself.
Jesus says in Matthew 5:8, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Obviously, the quality of the heart is the issue in this beatitude. Proverbs 4:23 reads, "Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life."
According to Jeremiah "the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9)
The heart is central to this beatitude. In the Bible the heart stands for the seat, source and reservoir of our thoughts, attitudes, desires, character and motivation.
Blessed are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8) is a beatitude expressing a standard that is extremely difficult to achieve. The challenge for us followers of Christ is to gaurd the purity of our hearts.
Jesus knew that it could be done. Hence, "they shall see God."
Will you commit with us to work on the purity of our hearts.
Blessings.
Mike and Daphne
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