Purity of Heart

Purity of Heart

(14 pages, large print, approximately a 16-minute read)

Introduction

“Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, ‘Here is truly an Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!’” John 1:47

I can still picture in my mind, one particular morning in 1979, as I sat at the counter of a local diner in Fort Worth, Texas, reading this verse of scripture over and over again. The Spirit of God had just opened the eyes of my heart to what was impressed upon me as being an essential aspect of Christianity.

The import was that this seemed to be what the Lord desired of every one of His people. It seemed that, in the eyes of the Lord, this was to be the definitive characteristic of His children, namely,  “in whom there is no deceit.”