A Pure Heart
Do you desire a pure heart? Think on these; The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9). God Who knows the heart of man declared that, every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5). A sinner’s heart is polluted, corrupt and full of wicked imaginations. Evil comes from the heart as Jesus declared, “for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemies; these are the things which defile a man (Matthew 15:19, 20). But good things come from a pure heart. You then want to ask, how can the heart be purified? The first step to get a pure heart is by confessing one ’s sins, forsaking them and praying until one is sure his sins are forgiven (1 John 1:9; Romans 8: 16). This experience is called salvation, being born again or justification. After a person is saved, he now has the opportunity of approaching the Throne of Grace for the s...