Blessed are the pure in Heart | Matthew 5:8

Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

We know God sees our hearts—that is, our intentions, motives, and reasoning behind all that we do. Nothing is hidden from Him, even those things that we never verbalized: "Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?”

God Looketh on the Heart

When Samuel stood before the sons of Jesse, he saw a group of strong young men and one who stood above the crowd. Samuel supposed that he must be God's choice. But God was measuring by a different standard. He had been looking at the hearts of these boys, and the man He chose to lead His nation was not even a man at all by this point, but had the heart of "a man after God's own heart." While David had been watching his father's sheep, he had confronted a lion and a bear. He had likely written some of the psalms: "The heavens declare his glory." And because he was pure in heart, he had seen God. Seen Him deliver him from beasts, seen Him in the majesty of the night sky and the rising of the sun. David went on Seeing God at work in his life because his heart was pure.

What Are You Looking For?

To the pure all things are pure, for the man looking for God he will see Him. I wonder this morning what you are looking for? Are you looking for God? Looking to please him, looking to hear from him? Looking to see his glory? If it is something else you seek, be careful—you might just find it. The blessing of a pure heart is that it seeks the right things and thus finds the right things. The curse of an impure heart is that it seeks impure things, and the worst thing that has happened to many men is they have found what they were seeking. Take Samson for example. He was constantly seeking a good time. He found it, and very quickly it devolved into a horrible situation where he lost everything, including his own life.

*Examine Your Heart*

Before you examine your head, or your logic of your decisions, or your hands, the mechanics of your decisions—we ought first to examine our hearts the motive of our decisions to see: Is this pure? Does it glorify God? Why am I doing this? Surely, blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.