Purity Is A Heart Condition

Recently I posted an article on why the children of GOD must accept the WORD of GOD exactly as it is written.

GOD’s WORD originated with GOD (2 Timothy 3:16) and reflects His character of purity (holiness) and perfection to His children (Proverbs 30:5; Psalm 19:7).

GOD’s WORD shows us who He is and teaches us how to be like Him – it trains us in righteousness and teaches us to be pure and holy like He is.

Obviously, purity is important to the GOD.

So, what is purity?

Purity is of the heart not the head

“…for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought.” 1 Chronicles 28:9

The Apostle Paul in his epistle to Titus (1:10-16) tells us that just knowing about GOD and His moral law does not make us pure. Paul warns Titus about a group of people who “profess to know God, but they deny him by their works.” Paul describes these as people with impure hearts.

“To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Titus 1:15.

Paul’s caution reminds us that our outward behavior and lifestyle are expressions of our heart condition.

Purity of heart is the seat of holiness

“…above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)

The Bible is clear that purity of heart is central to holiness. Terms used to describe the “heart” in other translations of Proverbs 4:23 include “source of life,” “issue of life,” “spring of life.” All say that the state of our hearts determines the state of our actions.

As GOD’s children, we want our lives to please our Father. But we can struggle to maintain GOD’s standards, just like the apostle Paul who said, When I want to do what is good, evil is with me. Romans 7:21.

The truth is, we all sin and fall short of GOD’s glory but there’s always good news with GOD.

Because He called us to have victory in living out our calling of holiness as His children, GOD will not allow us to go this journey alone, so He ensures our victory with support from the entire Godhead.

We have the Father who is the origin of our holiness, the SON who assigns His holiness to us and the Holy Spirit who is our lifetime daily sanctifier.

We give ourselves over completely to this Power Source and we cannot fail. 

Working together They will change us daily into GOD’s same image from one degree of glory to another. 2 Corinthians 3:18

We can be just like our Heavenly Father, pure and holy!

The pure in heart are blessed, for they will see God. Matthew 5:8

Prayer and Thanksgiving: Holy Father, YOU are the GOD whose love never fails. Thank YOU for choosing us to be YOUR children and showing us the way to a life of purity and holiness. We thank you that through CHRIST and the Holy Spirit we can enjoy an abundant life with YOU now and for all eternity. Father YOU are faithful! YOUR goodness is boundless and your mercy is new every morning. We are grateful for YOUR WORD which is life to us and became LIFE for us. We adore YOU, we adore JESUS, our Savior. Our earnest desire is that the words of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts are always pleasing in YOUR sight. To YOU, we give all praise, all honor and all glory, and we ask all things in JESUS’ Holy NAME. Amen.

Always by God’s Word and prayer,

Cecile