Matthew 5: 8 "Blessed are pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Another of the beautiful beatitudes (blessings) promised to those whom God has called to be his own. Purity of heart is a God-given quality which is bestowed upon the believer and not found in the natural heart. The scripture tells us that the heart of man is desperately wicked. In Genesis 6:5 we are told that before the flood "..the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of the his heart was only evil continually." and so is the sorry state of the human heart.
Praise God! The Holy Spirit converts and enables believers to have a pure heart toward God. As we battle our ongoing struggle to be holy as God is holy we cry with the Psalmist , "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10.
Psalm 24 is a majestic psalm of praise to our God and verses 3 and 4 speak of the man who shall ascend in to the hill of God, and stand in his holy place.
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