Matthew 5:8
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
When we read the Bible it talks alot about the heart...The heart, biblically speaking, is the Spirtiual Center of man...The heart is the center of our emotions, our thoughts, our will, our intentions, and the actions and deeds that we have and do..The heart reflects our how we live, so our hearts show others our life and our character...The heart can be wicked...The Great Prophet Jeremiah said the human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked...Who really knows how bad it is?...But Jesus reminds us in the beatitudes about those pure in heart...So the heart can be changed by Jesus to be pure...
John Flavel was an English Puritan Presbyterian minister and author...In his book, Keeping the Heart he writes about the importance of the heart...“The state of the whole body depends upon the soundness and vigour of the heart, and the everlasting state of the whole man upon the good or ill condition of the soul.”...“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” Proverbs 4:23”...“Maintain a prayerful frame of heart in the intervals of duty...What reason can be assigned why our hearts are so dull, so careless, so wandering, when we hear or pray, but that there have been long intermissions in our communion with God?...If that divine unction, that spiritual fervour, and those holy impressions, which we obtain from God while engaged in the performance of one duty, were preserved to enliven and engage us in the performance of another, they would be of incalculable service to keep our hearts serious and devout...For this purpose, frequent ejaculations between stated and solemn duties are of most excellent use: they not only preserve the mind in a composed and pious frame, but they connect one stated duty, as it were, with another, and keep the attention of the soul alive to all its interests and obligations.”...“It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your afflictions could do...Your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; you make your burden heavy by struggling under it...Did you but lie quietly under the hand of God, your condition would be much more easy than it is.”...“The heart of man is his worst part before it be regenerate, and the best afterwards: it is the seat of principles, and fountain of actions...The eye of God is, and the eye of a Christian ought to be, principally fixed upon it...The greatest difficulty in conversion, is, to win the heart to God; and the greatest difficulty after conversion, is, to keep the heart with God.”...
Jesus often talked about the importance of the heart and how we should follow a heart that is God filled...There are many verses in Scripture about the importance of keeping your heart focused on God...For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also....Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God...Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding...Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it...My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in My Ways...Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me...My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever...And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus...Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you...I do not give to you as the world gives... May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer...Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid...Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart...