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Devotions: Beatitudes (6) —Pure in Heart

July 27, 2014 by Carl Shank Leave a Comment

You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. -- Matthew 5:8 (The Message) Notice that God does NOT say, "Blessed are the perfect." Purity of heart, that is, the inner life, is not the same thing as perfection. This beatitude is for normal people who mess up, who fail, who sin, who don't have it together, who think less of themselves than they should. "Purity" means those who seek and serve God in accordance with the truth in his Word and in … [Read more...] about Devotions: Beatitudes (6) —Pure in Heart

Filed Under: Beatitudes, Christ and the Academy, Devotional Tagged With: jesus, perfection, Prayer, pure in heart, Sermon on the Mount, spirituality

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