Living the Message

Today Pastor Mary talked about this beatitude and read the story of the poor widow's offering. Even though her offering wasn't as much as the other's, Jesus saw her heart. She gave all she had out of her poverty. A person who is pure in heart would be innocent and untainted by evil. As creatures of the fall we can never have perfectly pure motivations, but we need to work on making sure Jesus is the grounding part of our life. We heard about the part in David's life when he became more of a king than a child of God and threw his weight around in the wrong way. After he realized where he had gone wrong, he wrote Psalm 51. Verse 10 says "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." May we should always seek God to make our minds and heart put right.