Purify Matthew 5:8

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Matthew 5:8 (NIV)
8. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

1 Peter 5:8 (NIV)
8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

And how do you get a pure heart, especially when we’re broken from the beginning (thanks Adam) and we have the devil that prowls around like a lion looking for us to devour?

Yet, the pure of heart are blessed and they shall see God.

Proverbs 29:23 (ESV)
One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Isaiah 55:7 (NLT)
7 Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

The path to a pure heart is to God. God forgives. God died for our sins. It’s not something that we can do on our own and get there. Dirty doesn’t clean itself and you can’t make dirty clean by adding more dirty to it. That’s what we do when we try to clean ourselves up by ourselves. We need to get clean with clean. We need to get pure by adding purity. God’s grace is sufficient.

And the only thing that’s purely pure is God.

Humble yourself to God, to Christ, to the Holy Spirit and purify.

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I Love The Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the blessings He has poured into my life. I pray that I live a life that glorifies Him in all I do, but I fail every day, many, many, many times. I have come here through brokenness, a trail of pain and broken promises that I've created through my self centeredness, self will and arrogance. For those I've hurt, please forgive me for what I did. Those things that I remember I am truly sorry I did them. I wish I could undo them. I can't. I use these lessons as motivation to be a builder, to take those experiences and hopefully keep someone else out of their own similar experiences. I love my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my strangers, and those the world would like to dismiss as an unfortunate error messing up worldly perfection. I get frustrated with all of the above too, for I am broken, not like God. Lord, give me your wisdom, your patience, and knowledge of your will for me and the strength to carry that out in all I do. I believe we have work to do while we are here and need to be actively engaged in allowing God to work through us. A Christian is someone who does what The Father, Son and Holy Spirit calls them to do, a builder not a taker, a conduit not a pinnacle, humble and serving. Micah 6:8 Matthew 25:31-46