Absolute Purity

How do you get close to God?  What does it take?

When He was on this earth, Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matthew 5:8).

How do you gain something that has been lost? I am speaking of purity – absolute purity. The first created man and woman had experienced absolute purity and regularly conversed with God until the Deceiver swayed their hearts otherwise by suggesting that God was withholding good from them, and their hearts believed the lie of the Deceiver. At that point in time, the Deceiver’s trap had ensnared the hearts of all mankind – no longer were the hearts of men pure. This created a rift, a chasm in man’s relationship to God for evil tainted the very core of man.

How is purity defined? Let me give you an example. If you have experienced the shores of an ocean, the great expanse of water where your eyes cannot see land beyond the horizon. Let’s assume the ocean is made up of fresh, drinkable water and you took a grain of salt and dropped it into the ocean water. At that point, the ocean water is tainted – not pure – because that one grain of salt affects the whole body of water. Yet evil spreads, so imagine that this one grain of salt then multiplies to infect the whole ocean that creates the salty water we now know. This is water is not fit for consumption, and it all started with one grain of salt. The good deeds we do are good, but we also do things out of selfish ambition. After the sin of the first man and woman, sin was reproduced genetically throughout all generations so it doesn’t matter if we sinned with a grain of salt or we sinned with a semitruck load of salt; we all have sinned.

But do not be dismayed.  God, in His infinite wisdom, designed a way for mankind to be able to receive a pure heart once again.  Jesus says, “I offer you streams of living water and you will never thirst again.” 

So what’s the alternative?  A whole lot of ocean water, not fit for consumption.

Jesus offers us the opportunity to have a pure heart again based on our faith in the One True God. The offer stands on the table, waiting for your response.

But know this, we were meant to be pure as in the image of God.