Thought For Today - August 16. 2024
What Did Jesus Say? - About the Condition of the Heart?
By: Robert A. Searles
In its natural state, the heart of man is desperately wicked. Who can know it?
When the bible speaks of the heart, it is not referring to the physical heart, the pump that circulates the blood through our bodies, but is speaking of the innermost personality, the mind and the soul.
In the depths of our subconscious mind there are impurities which have
been inherited from our ancestors down through the ages. This is called the sin nature. Until we are
changed by being born again, as it were, by receiving Christ as our
savior and allowing the Holy Spirit to descend into the basement of our
mind and soul, and dig out those evil thoughts and imaginations, and
rebellion against God, we cannot expect the Holy Spirit to feel at home
there.
There is no
cleaning detergent on earth that can purify our innermost being, our
heart, and soul, and free us from the sin nature and replace it with the divine nature from God except the shed blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.
When we have
believed, and received him by faith, and allowed him to apply his blood
to our account, his blood washes us and makes us whiter than snow.
When our hearts are pure because of what Christ has accomplished for
us, then we are considered pure in heart, and we can sense the presence
of God in our lives, and we can see God as he wants us to see him.
Jesus said: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8.
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