“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Matthew 5:8
Many believers would love to a have a vision of God. They would like to know and hear God better. Yet, as they go through life many do not know and hear God better.
In this verse Jesus states that to see God your heart must be pure. What does this mean?
The heart is often represented to show what you desire and follow after. In the world people often follow after fame or fortune or things. The common desire is for self.
Most people are seeking to find what they can for themselves. This can even be disguised behind the belief it is for the family. Men will work extreme long hours to get enough money to provide for his family. The provision will be an extra-large house, the newest cars and elite college for their children. In all it is often to make themselves look good because their family looks good. Rarely is it for God or others.
Faults can even be found in the church. Some will do a ministry, not because they are called by God to do it, or a desire to reach the lost or build a new believer, but to look God. Very often it is trying to be on good terms with God.
The pure in heart will be doing things with the right motive. They will desire only the things of God and for God and His kingdom.
Jesus did not try to build a large house and gain things in this world. His focus was to do God’s will while He was on this earth.
Your heart should be in the same way. God desires you to flee all sin and repent of the sins you have done. He desires you to follow Him with all of your heart. He desires you to serve others as though you are serving Him. He desires for you to obey Him in everything. He desires you to be His witness wherever you go.
Where is your heart today? Is it pure? Or does it have wrong desires and motives? Ask God to show you how pure your heart really is. Ask God to give you a clean, pure heart.
I pray today that God will change your heart; that you will seek God with all of your heart; that the desires of your heart will be to follow God only; and that you will see God.
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