Fall: Week Seven
Blessed Are the Pure In Heart:
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”
~ Matthew 5:8 ~
Jesus is a heart guy. He doesn’t care who you are or what you’ve done; He cares about the motivation behind your actions. Everyday, we all make decisions about how we are going to live our lives. Sometimes we make good decisions, sometimes we make bad decisions, and most of those decisions cannot be taken back. However, each new day brings new decisions, and each new decision brings new opportunities to help you get to where you want to be. Learn from your past, but don’t live in it.
The Bible tells us that if we seek God, then He will welcome us in. We must earnestly seek His purpose for our lives – that is how we stay pure. If we are totally committed to living life the way God wants us to live, then we will stay pure, and we will see God. You have to believe that there is something bigger than yourself to live for. God has a plan, He has a purpose for you and for me. But we all have our own dreams and desires, our own vision of “the perfect life.” We have to be willing to give that up and trust that God has something even better in store for us. Only by giving up our hearts can we truly see God.
God wants us to love Him. This is why we have free will because forced love is not real love. The relationship between Jesus and His Church is to be like the relationship between man and wife – two becoming one. We must let God’s Spirit into our hearts, and we must give ourselves over to Him. There is s freedom and a strength in God’s love that can be found nowhere else – and this love is openly offered as a free gift via the blood of Jesus.
