How to be Pure in Heart
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8 WEB)
This verse can be quite convicting. If read the wrong way, it can send you spiraling downward into self-occupation and self-condemnation.
If you think it’s up to you to guard your heart in order to become pure in heart, you have missed the point.
The truth is, if it was up to your performance to be pure in heart, you would never get to see God.
Invariably, we would have bad thoughts and if you’re constantly feeling condemned every time, your focus will go to yourself instead of Christ.
In the Old Testament, we find a prophecy about what God will do:
“I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.” (Ezekiel 36:26-27 WEB)
Did you know that you received a new heart the moment you were born-again through faith in Jesus? The new heart loves the things of God and produces righteous desires—it is not rebellious against God’s ways like the stony unbeliever’s heart was.
Your new heart makes you pure in heart, and because of this, you shall see God. When Jesus returns for us, you will see Him first, and then we will all be brought up into Heaven to meet Abba Father.
Being pure in heart is not an achievement you earn. You freely received a pure new heart when you got saved! You don’t have to try to become what you already are.
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