A “Pure Heart” and “Clean Hands”

    A “pure heart” means we hold unwavering to the belief in an all-embracing, Omnipotent God. “Our Father which art in Heaven.” This concept flies in the face of what many interpret a “pure heart” to mean, yet doesn’t it make perfect sense? Our heart becomes “pure” because we believe, have become convinced of the truth of the necessity to turn our will and lives over to the care of God. With this level of understanding, a “pure heart” truly becomes attainable.

    To have “clean hands” spiritually does not mean that we have never erred or made mistakes but that we have been cleansed in spirit by our continuing reliance on a power greater than ourselves, demonstrating this reliance by and in our actions. What happens to clean hands? They invariably become soiled again. None of us pass through this life perfectly but with raised consciousness we turn to Him who has all knowledge and power, admitting our fault, our hands cleansed again.

    Limitation thinking regularly bombards us from all sides, from the nightly news to seemingly casual conversations that drift into the negative; fear and limitation thinking creeps into our consciousness on cat’s paws, silent as fog rolling in. When we become aware of our heart becoming heavy, our hands soiled, we turn to God in prayer to restore our pure heart and cleanse our hands as the very gates of Divine love and intelligence open to greet us. Though we cannot think our way into right living, we can pray our way into the perfection of Spirit the Great Carpenter said was the birthright of all God’s children.