A Pure Heart

Ok, we love and worship God. We minister to the brethren in the church. That’s good. We go and make disciples of Christ. Great!

Let’s ask ourselves: Are our hearts pure? Down to the deepest, innermost chamber? What are the stories we confess to our best friends? Feelings we keep to ourselves? Sincerely, are there repressed bitterness? Hate? Lust? Insecurity? Pride? Any speck of the inverse of Galatians 5:22? Unresolved and hidden matters of the heart are certainly not of the Spirit. We tend to think, we are OK for being “religious”, and so “into” church activities.

Remember we can’t just go on burdened with unreconciled heart issues and pretend that we’re in “a whole new world” during praise nights and discipleship sessions. Let David’s prayer in Psalm 51:10 be ours as we seek God’s guidance in our desire for a heart that is pure. A spirit that follows hard after the Lord. 

- O