The Pure in Heart

Matthew 5:8 is a scripture that has been within my spirit for many years, for I had written a song called The Beatitudes years ago that contained its lyric, as part of my album Christ’s Sermon in Song. This is how it reads:

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

At that time, I never really gave it a huge amount of pondering, but later, I did ask the Lord, to show me what exactly He meant, and then went on life’s way.

It was only recently, summer of 2023, that I pulled out an old classic Madam Guyon book from my home library entitled Intimacy with Christ that I got a new “perspective” on the pure of heart. This is what I wrote in my journal from page 11 of that book:

“God reveals himself to the pure of heart, and through them He blesses others that are receptive. These little streams, which water others, flow from the Fountain, who is The Lord Himself.”

“It is the Fountain alone that determines which way the streams will go.”

“It is the nature of God to want to share Himself. God would cease to be God if he stopped sharing and revealing Himself through love to the pure in heart.”

Then this is from page 12 of that book:

“God communicates Himself in proportion to how much you are prepared to receive Him. In this same proportion, you are transformed by Him, into His Image.”

Wow, this sounded so much like what my previous chapter communicated! About holiness and how much God has “of us”…about separating ourselves, etc. (The Spirit is so good to confirm his words to us…to let us know we are really hearing His Voice…and this excerpt did that for me, for sure.)

Then, I realized, in a moment, that the Holy Spirit was telling me that to be “pure in heart” means to be “separated unto God”.

I wanted to be sure I was really hearing him, this time too, so I searched and came to the scripture Psalm 73:1. This is what it says:

“Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a pure heart.”

With the Holy Spirit’s whisper fresh in my mind, that was telling me to be “pure in heart” means to be “separated unto God”… I immediately saw The Connection!

Israel was The People, separated unto God…. God was good to them… because they were His People.

And yet the verse goes on to include, “even to such as are of a pure heart”… so the conclusion is, that they too, are separated unto God. The pure in heart are separated unto God.

I saw it. I got it. God confirmed my word with The Word.

So with Madam Guyon’s description that God communicates Himself in proportion to how much you are prepared to Receive Him, gave me even more clarity and fresh perspective on things!

“They shall see God” means they will experience more of His Revealing Himself to them!

It is a blessing beyond blessings!

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” means they are Happy, Fulfilled, Joyful, and will indeed Experience Life to the Fullest, for the pure in heart have “prepared themselves to receive” what God desires to reveal to them! They don’t make up things! They don’t pretend to be holy! They don’t try to “be spiritual”. They have a tender heart “toward God” and “are humble” and “yielded” and “want to receive from God” … whatever it is He wants to reveal of Himself… in however way He wants to do it.

They are OPEN. They are AVAILABLE. Their motives are pure. Their focus is single. The pure in heart love the Lord, obey the Lord, and submit to the Lord. They are “obsessed” with keeping a clear conscience, and having nothing get in the way of their relationship WITH the Lord.

Let’s look back on the relationship of a loving couple… a bride engaged to her husband to be… for this is what believers are To Christ. If I, as his bride, instead of being faithful to him, and being prepared for his coming to take me away in marriage (which incidentally Christ is about to do for his Church)… if I would “play around” with adultery, fornication, witchcraft, sin, or engage in any other unfaithfulness to my groom, then I would NO LONGER BE PURE OF HEART, would I?

I’d be exposed, in HIS EYES, for my sin is not ever hidden from him.

I could justify it all I wanted to, but I wouldn’t be pure in heart if I led a lifestyle other than one of perfect love and devotion to the man I was engaged to.

So to be pure in heart, is to be faithful and true, to the ONE who is called FAITHFUL and TRUE!

Revelation 19:11 says this:

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True.”

So yes, he wants me to be faithful and true, as He is.

The pure of heart are faithful and true. Their love for God and Christ is what gives them spiritual strength. They will see God, in the sense that He will reveal Himself to them in so many ways! It will be a divine romance all through their life. Them kissing him, him kissing them… spiritually speaking.

Getting “rid of self” makes “room for Him”.

No one person, in a couple, can be “receiving fully” if they are not “giving fully”. Isn’t that true?

Think about it. If one person is always doing the giving, and the other person doing the taking, that isn’t a relationship at all. It is doomed from the start, for love doesn’t operate that way.

“We love him, because He first loved us” is the basis for The Believer. We have a lover! So, we can love!

We have someone who has forgiven our sins, given us his presence, provides for our needs, gives us counsel, shares of himself through the Word and the Spirit within us, and RELATIONSHIP is ours.

We then, can be pure in heart… trusting that love, and loving the Lord back… making room for Him in our lives.

It is truly a dance of back and forth mutual loving of one another.

So don’t overthink being PURE IN HEART. The more of yourself you give God, the more he will consume you. It will be completely natural. It will be totally immersive, if you only cooperate with His Workings within and around you.

The Pure in Heart separate themselves UNTO GOD…and He keeps them Pure of Heart!

Amen! (smile)

May we all be pure in heart! And See God!