DAILY DEVOTION No. 47

    A PURE HEART

Titus  1:15

15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

The word pure here is 'katharos' (Greek) meaning pure, clean , purified  by fire. Like a vine purified by pruning so that it will produce fruit.

To be a Christian requires us to be  pure in heart. It is not our physical health but what we think and feel and do that makes us pure in heart. The pure in heart tend to see things in a pure light. They see others as persons God loves. The impure see them as what they can get out of them or even as sex objects. The pure rejoice over another person's success while the impure feel jealous.

How are your motives and what is really in your heart? Are you an example to others of Godly living? John 3:9-11 we see Diotrephes who had a wrong spirit. It says in these verses - I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. 10 So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God.

 As a contrast we have Demetrius in the following verse of 3 John - 12 Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone - and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.

The purity of your heart will shape the way you look at things. A heart purified by God protects from much hurt and harm. As it says in Proverbs 4:23, you and I must constantly guard our heart because out of it flow the issues of life.  

Prayer

Father, help me to live a pure and holy life before You. Help me to constantly guard what I allow into my mind so that my heart will remain righteous before You.

Rod Best