Blessed are the Pure in Heart

Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. Matthew 5:8

Dear Father,

I do pray for the children and their physical purity, amid all of the temptation and open sexuality of our generation. But Jesus was talking about emotional purity - purity of heart. That is a much more complex concept. I pray that your Spirit will grow in these children a heart of purity. Not only that they keep themselves pure, but that the desire to do so to please you. That they be emotionally pure - pure of desire for things and people that are not theirs to have, pure of hatred, pure of arrogance, pure of self-centeredness, pure of manipulation, pure of materialism, pure of bitterness and grudge holding, pure of gossip and pure of anger.

I then call on your promise that these children will see you. I don't think that the promise in Matthew 5:8 is talking about seeing you in heaven, though it may include that. I believe that your grace, through faith in your Son, will save them eternally, not the level of their purity. I think your scripture is telling us here that as we strive to be pure, and allow you Spirit to purify us, the clouds of deceit that Satan covers us with will begin to clear and we will  see you more clearly and will see your will and your purposes and will see your truth.

So, I of course pray that these children will see you eternally, but in their lifetime, as your Spirit works to cleanse their hearts, I also pray that you will make yourself more clear and more plain and more real to them - ever increasingly all the days of their lives.

Amen