Reputation is what you are in public, character is what you are in private (by yourself). The ‘world’ is interested in your reputation, God is interested in your character. What you really think, act, and do when nobody else will ever find out. Integrity is what you are when nobody else is looking-what you are in the ‘dark’. The word for “pure in heart” today is integrity. However, God’s standard for acceptable character is that we are 100% pure! Though mankind sets the standard of “goodness” as the worst human being alive, God’s standard is Himself-absolute holiness and righteousness. That’s because when everyone bases his personal evaluation of himself on a person lower than himself, the standard spirals down from person to person until it can go no His standard is always someone ‘lower’ than himself.įor those who set their standards lower than themselves, the ultimate human ‘standard’ ends up being the most ‘rotten’ person alive. Man tends to measure himself by his fellow man. God is more interested in the ‘direction’ of your heart, than He is in the sins you commit-more interested in your ‘attitude’ than your actions, and ‘why’ you do what you do, than actually what you do.Ī person with a ‘pure heart’ will experience the pardon and ‘presence’ of God, the ‘power’ of God, a ‘closeness’ with God, the peace of God, and the purpose God has for their lives. (“Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” ). God just cares about your ‘heart’-the ‘real’ you, what’s ‘inside’. God doesn’t care how popular or how famous you are. God isn’t interested in how educated you are, or how wealthy you are. God doesn’t care about your appearance, your achievements, your accomplishments, or your acquisitions. God wants us to seek Him like King David (“a man after God’s own heart”) did: “Create in me a clean heart, O God”. Purity of heart has no deception, no double-mindedness, no divided allegiance. This is to be done not with ‘part’ of your heart, or a double or ‘divided’ heart-that would be ‘impurity’. The ‘essence’ of what God wants of each one of us is: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” An act of pure and selfless giving brings happiness to all.
#Blessed are those with pure hearts free#
What a beautiful goal! How many times have any of us performed an act perfectly free of any personal gain? Such is an act of ‘pure’ love. To be pure of heart means to be free of all selfish intentions and self-seeking desires. From a pure heart comes only good things-acts of love, mercy, grace, and desires for righteousness, justice, and peace-decisions that please God.
So, a “pure heart” means that the decisions one makes, the desires one has, the thoughts and intensions of the will, are untarnished by sin, and that the will is determined to be pleasing to God. Predominantly it refers to the thinking processes-not the emotions, but our choices. The term “heart,” when used in the Bible, relates to ones ‘will’-the seat of a man’s personality.
Purity is not something that you earn–it comes from God’s mercy. It is His mercy that cleanses your evil heart. Purity of heart comes after you’ve hungered and thirsted for righteousness and after God has dispensed His mercy upon you. Those depending on a ‘religion’ based or human achievement won’t make it into the Kingdom. Only the pure in heart will ‘see’ God in His Kingdom.
#Blessed are those with pure hearts how to#
Of all the Beatitudes, this one is the clearest statement on how to enter the Kingdom.
It stretches over everything else revealed in Scripture. It is one of the greatest utterances in the Bible. Purity of heart is a theme that runs from the beginning of the Bible to the end. “Blessed are the PURE IN HEART, for they shall see God.”
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