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TRUE HAPPINESS IN CHRIST: BE PURE IN HEART (I)
MONDAY, JULY 10
Psalm 15
Matthew 5:8
“Blessed are the pure in heart:
for they shall see God”
TRUE HAPPINESS IN CHRIST: BE PURE IN HEART (I)
The sixth blessing is for “the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Many people challenge that only when God reveals Himself to them clearly will they then believe. Did God reveal Himself to mankind? Yes, He did. God has revealed Himself through His creation, through His Son Jesus Christ, and through His Word the Holy Bible. Can human beings see God? Moses desired to see God’s face, but God said, “Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live” (Exod 33:20). Why? Because God is so great, so holy, so righteous, so glorious that sinners with impure and corrupt hearts cannot see Him. There was a man who was in a dark prison cell for a long time. When he was released and brought out to daylight, his eyes could not stand the glare and brightness of the sunlight. He closed his eyes and required a pair of sunglasses. The Bible tells us about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in the last days, all people even the kings, the rich men and chief captains and the mighty men will say to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” (Rev 6:15‑17). Nowadays people may challenge, deny or blaspheme God, but when Jesus Christ comes back, they cannot stand before His glorious and holy presence!
It is a blessing to have a pure heart that we may see God now with our spiritual eyes and will see Him with our physical eyes when Jesus comes back again. “Pure” here means “clean” from the pollution, defilement, and guilt of sin. Do we have a pure heart without sin? “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it?” (Jer 17:9). God looks into our hearts and minds and thoughts and motives, and He condemns sin in the heart (Matt 5:28). How about our heart? Is it pure? Are our minds, thoughts and motives clean? We thank God that our Saviour Jesus Christ is able to cleanse our hearts from all our sins and unrighteousness by His own blood and give us a new heart (Ezek 36:25‑27; 1 John 1:7-9).
THOUGHT: (Read Hebrews 12:14.)
PRAYER: (Use Psalm 139:23-24.)