Pure in Heart

Matt 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”

I was pondering on what it means by, ‘pure in heart’. Looked up an Open Bible and found this prize:

As unadulterated water is said to be pure, and gold without alloy is pure gold, so the pure heart is the undivided heart where there is n conflict of loyalties, no cleavage of interests, no mixture of motives, no hypocrisy and no insecurity.

It is whole-heartedness God-wards.

The reward of the undivided heart is the vision of God. No vision of God can come to the heart that is unclean because it is out of harmony with the nature and character of God.

Pure in heart is a state of heart reserved completely for God and freed from all worldly distractions. In the specialized sense purity came to mean freedom from sexual pollution, particularly in the sexual life, though the NT does not teach that sexual activity is polluting in itself and, indeed, makes it clear that rightly ordered sexual behavior is not (cf Heb13:4). Nevertheless, the NT teaches the sanctity of the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit (cf 1Cor6:19f) and inculcates the duty of self-restraint and self-denial even to the extent of personal loss. Purity is thus the spirit of renunciation and of the obedience which brings every thought and feeling and action into subjection to Christ. It begins within and extends outwards to the entire life, cleansing all the centres of living and controlling all the movements of body and spirit.
(all the above are completely taken from the Open Bible)


A very rich and lucid explanation which I enjoy reading over and over again. With understanding of the above enunciates, “No wonder I have yet to see God!”