It’s possible to appear pure on the outside and yet have an impure heart. Many of the Pharisees in Jesus’ day appeared to have their religious act together but their hearts were rotten to the core. They scolded the disciples because they didn’t wash their hands before a meal. Jesus said to them, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man” (Matthew 15:19-20).
Jesus called them “whited sepulchres” (Matthew 23:27) – beautiful and clean on the outside but inside they’re full of dead men’s bones. That kind of righteousness may impress other people but it doesn’t impress God.
In James 4:8, James defines what it means to have an impure heart. He says, “…purify your hearts, ye double minded.” An impure heart reaches to God with one hand but holds on to the world with the other. An impure heart wants all the blessings of heaven but at same time wants to enjoy all the pleasures of earth.
The heart is purified by a constant exposure to the Word of God. Jesus said, “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you” (John 15:3). Wrong attitudes and sinful habits are changed as we saturate ourselves in the Word of God.
A number of years ago, Princess Diana visited the area where my sister lived in Northern Ireland. My nephew was busy playing with his toys and so he protested at being dragged off to see this princess. As Diana walked past the crowd, she noticed the tears in my nephews eyes and put her hand to his face and said, “Ah, look at those tears.” She thought that my little nephew was crying because he was so overwhelmed at seeing her, when in reality the reason for his tears was because he was more interested in playing with his toys.
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Many Christians are like that. We are more interested in playing with religion than we are in seeing the beauty and glory of the King of kings. We have little thought of purity and defile ourselves with lust, anger, bitterness, and impure thoughts.
Perhaps you feel like you’re being pulled in two different directions. Let me encourage you to make Godly choices. God doesn’t make those choices for us. He’s given us a free will; and we need to realize that our choices do not just affect us, but they will have a profound impact upon our children and our grandchildren.
Morris Hull
Home Life Ministries
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