Keep Your Heart Pure

God calls His people to pursue purity of heart so that their words, attitudes, and conduct reflect what is pleasing to Him.

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Believers are called to pursue purity of heart before God.

• Biblical purity concerns the condition of the heart rather than outward appearance alone.
• A pure heart is concerned with what is pleasing to God, not merely with avoiding visible wrongdoing.
• Purity affects the thoughts, desires, attitudes, words, and actions that flow from within.
• Outwardly correct behavior can be accompanied by wrong attitudes, making examination of the heart necessary.
• David's prayer for a clean heart shows the need for God to work within a person.
• Pursuing purity involves both turning away from sinful influences and cultivating what is good before God.

• Ask God to reveal anything within you that is contrary to His will.
• Examine your motives as well as your outward actions.
• Remove influences that continually draw your heart toward sin.
• Replace sinful thoughts and attitudes with what agrees with God's Word.
• Guard your words because they can reveal the condition of your heart.
• Continue pursuing holiness with a sincere desire to please God.