What is a pure heart?
Pure: Clean, blameless, guiltless,
Heart: Not only physical but the center of spiritual life where thoughts, desires, purpose, will understanding and character reside.
Being pure in heart is having a singleness of heart towards God.It has no hypocrisy, no guile, and no hidden motives. And the only way to have a truly pure heart is to give our lives to Jesus and ask him to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
https://www.gotquestions.org/pure-in-heart.html
Most of us know the story of King David in the bible. He had seen a beautiful woman and wanted her. He got her pregnant and then to hide the fact, he had her husband killed in battle. He thought no one would know. But someone did. God saw it and he sent his prophet Nathan to confront David. And David did confess what he had done. He then wrote Psalm 51 asking God to create in him a clean heart.There were consequences to his sin but God, in his grace did forgive David and kept his promise to him that someone from David's family would rule forever.
Jeremiah 17:9 says that our hearts are deceitful. However, just as David, we too can have a clean and pure heart. But just like David, we too have to ask him to cleanse us from all deceit and he is then faithful to do it for us.
If you haven't already, ask God's forgiveness for your sin. Ask him to create a clean heart for you. If you are sincere, he will do just that. Sometimes our sin does call for consequences but praise Jesus, he does hear and wants to do that for you. He is ever faithful and he is just.
Thanks for visiting me on this wonderful Lord's Day. May God richly bless you and yours!
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