Good morning everyone,

Psalm 73:1–Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Matthew 5:8-Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

From experiences in my own life as well as having the privilege to be involved in other people’s lives, I’ve realized that the only way a person can see an experience as truly beneficial to their lives is to see God working in it. Regardless of the persons background in education, culture, age, etc., the one thing that is consistent as to whether a person is really progressing in who they are and their ability to persevere through difficulties with a pure heart, is whether they see God "weaved" throughout everything in their life.

The issue that we are responsible for in our inability to have a pure heart and therefore see God, comes from a persistent desire to control everything. From people to situations, our lack of faith in God shows by not allowing Him to define us by what He leads us through, which hinders us to conclude that God and His ways are perfect and good (Hebrews 5 v8). The issue of control comes in when we judge God’s ways in comparison with our own. One of us is completely in control while the other is out of control!

It takes maturity to be accountable to ourselves before God and daily assume responsibility for the way our heart is responding to Him. Yet even if we are conscious of God, are we insisting on Him being wrong or cruel because we are in the situation we are in? If we are, then we are clearly not pure in heart and literally not seeing life through the "light" of God. Which is ironic, because before we came to Him we were "blind in trespasses and sins". So if we are in anyway claiming God to be wrong for whatever we’re going through, we are left with an impure heart and blind once again. Such blindness leaves us to think that "God is not only not good, but wrong in the way He is leading me". Yet blindness, comes from not trusting the only One who is good, while and an impure heart blinds us and then decieves us into thinking we are good enough to trust ourselves. Yet insecurity will always tells us otherwise.

In His Love, Ld