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“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God”
Many weekend mornings around my house when the kids were at home I would get up early and fix breakfast, it was my treat to start the weekend. I would often make a big batch of scrambled eggs. Once while I was cracking the eggs I got to the last one cracked it open and by the look and smell knew right away it was a bad egg. The interesting thing is that it looked fine on the outside you had to crack it open to realize it was bad. Many times people are the same way they look good on the outside.
Jesus was addressing this issue when He spoke these words. The Pharisees and spiritual leaders of that time were very prideful on showing hoe “religious” they were. When on the inside they had hearts of stone. Hypocrisy is an epidemic, the doctor who smokes, the referee that takes a bribe, the tax accountant who cheats on his taxes, the politician that says what you want to hear and the pastor that commits adultery. They all look good on the outside but are dark in the inside. The path to happiness can only be truly walked by those that are pure of heart. We have a propensity to measuring ourselves up to our fellow man. If I can find someone worst than me I must not be that bad. We justify our impure actions by finding someone else who is worse.
Peter tells us be holy for your Father in Heaven is Holy. This is a tough order to fulfill as we all stumble and fall. The thing we need to understand is that this is not an issue of the body or mind but an issue of the heart. The heart is the inner man it is the control tower of our emotions and reactions to the world around us. We are reminds us in Proverbs 4:23 that above all things we are to guard our hearts. The true person exists in the heart no matter what is on the outside. Sometimes the pressure of life brings out the worst in us and we wonder where that came from. Sadly it was always there inside of us all the while looking for a way out. We need to get control of our hearts and clean them from the inside out. That does not mean that a little bit of rotten egg will not spill our every now and then. However by staying in God’s Word and applying the previous steps Jesus has laid out for us in this poignant sermon achieve in our own humble this lofty goal of being pure in heart.
Always remembering that it is not what is on the outside that counts a man to purity but what is on the inside. It is a heart issue.
Blessings
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