“BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD”
To be pure in heart does not mean perfection. It means to live in the new creation with Jesus who sanctifies and aligns our hearts desires with His. Jeremiah says that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9). But the Lord will search the heart and test the mind. Jesus is the Savior and physician who has come to heal the sick and save the lost.
This beatitude puts all the others into focus. As we draw near to the heart of Jesus, we mourn yet receive comfort, we accept and give mercy, we allow God to be our justifier, we crave right relationship and realize we are dependent on God alone. There is so much freedom that comes in knowing Jesus, for He is holy and deserving of all honor and praise. Jesus tells us to follow Him; He will make us clean and we will see the Lord!
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