Scripture: Matthew 5:8
Journal: How are your eyes and your heart connected? How does that affect the way you see
God? How does it affect the way you see
yourself? How do you pursue purity of
heart?
Reflection:
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8) It is amazing how connected the
eyes and the heart are. Jesus knew
it. Why else would he make a statement
like this?
If our hearts are pure, it
means our eyes are clear. It means we
are able to see things accurately. But
if our hearts are impure, if our motives are self-centered or our desires are self-serving,
then our eyes are cloudy. We are not
able to see God clearly, because your own stuff is in the way. We need to have our lenses cleansed—which is
literally what the word pure means in the Greek. But we can’t just clean our lenses, we must
start on the inside—with our hearts.
“Create in me a clean
heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me,” say the words of the
ancient prayer. (Psalm 51:10, ESV) David
knew where true and lasting change takes place.
He knew that we must start with the heart, if we were to ever have any
hope of having clear eyes. And that is a
work of the Spirit of God.
So let us join David in
praying this prayer. Let us pray it
early and often. Let us beg and plead
for God’s mercy and grace to fall upon us and empower us. Let us allow him to enter in and clean our
dirty hearts, that we might, one day, be able to see God. Because, to change the words of a popular
phrase a little, the truth is that “Pure hearts, clean eyes, can’t lose.”
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew
a right spirit within me. For only then
will I be able to see you clearly. Amen.
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