1. Purity is about wholeness

Jesus in the Beatitudes uses purity in a way that we often don’t consider. Jesus states,” Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8) It involves a spiritual purity or a purity of heart. But what exactly does Jesus mean by being pure in heart?

For someone to be pure in heart, it means their heart is set on one thing and nothing else. It is wholly directed toward one thing. For us to truly be concerned about purity, we must be concerned about where our affections and devotions lie. While the Bible is certainly concerned with sexual purity, it is far more concerned with a purity of heart. While physical adultery is a sin, it is symptomatic of a far deeper issue: spiritual adultery.

Erick Bouwmeester