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

Pure (Def): (Gr.): Katharos: Clean, Clear, Transparent

The Scripture tells us the heart of man is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Yet, Christ declares blessings on “the pure in heart for they shall see God”. There is a giant leap from one to the other, isn’t there? Is it really possible to transform the deceitfully wicked heart to a pure, clean and transparent one? Only by the miracle of the new birth.

In his Epistle to Timothy the Apostle declared:

“Now the end of the Commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of sincere faith” (I Timothy 1:5).

Walking in the love of God from a pure heart, a clean conscience and sincere faith fulfills the Commandment. This is a blessed state in which to live, indeed. The grace of God truly is amazing to accomplish such a wonder. It is as the Apostle declared:

“O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 7:24-25a).

The Apostle Peter wrote in his First Epistle:

“Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently” (I Peter 1:22).

Loving from a pure heart is loving from a clean, clear and transparent heart wherein there is no deceit, no self-interest, no lust for possession, no evil desire, no uncleanness. It is a pure love that is honorable, decent, respectful of others with their good in mind.

The contrast between the deceitful, carnal heart and the divine heart, the pure heart that is formed out of the divine nature of Christ, is astounding. The contrast is as darkness and light, night and day, evil and good.

The promise of Christ is that the pure in heart shall see God. The writer to the Hebrews touches on this in the passage:

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water” (Hebrews 10:22).

The “pure water” is the word of God as the Apostle wrote to the Ephesians:

“That He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word” (Ephesians 5:26).

And as Christ so spoke to His Apostles:

“Now you are clean (Katharos) through the word which I have spoken to you” (John 15:3).

To the Apostle John it was revealed:

“He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Revelation 22:1).

Oh, how blessed, indeed, it is to be cleansed, sanctified and purified by the working of the Holy Spirit in the New Birth wherein our hearts are made pure, and we can enter into the presence of Christ at His Holy Throne of Grace to find more grace to help through every trial, heartache, pain and suffering as we serve Him in this dispensation on earth until that glorious day when we shall behold Him in glory, when we shall, indeed, see God.

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