Sunday’s demonstration with the drinking glasses really makes you consider how mixed up our values are.  We say we value God and purity, but then we add impure thoughts, impure feelings, and impure actions to the mix.  When Jesus said “Blessed are the pure in heart,” He was talking about having a value system that is undivided–completely dedicated to living holy for God.

It’s easy to see that when you take a drinking glass and begin using it in the garden and the garage and the litter box, that there’s no way you would want to use it at the table again.  It’s the same with our hearts, which is sort of like a vessel for God’s Holy Spirit.  God doesn’t want a heart that mixed up between His holiness and the filth of this world.

Romans 6:13 says, “Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.”

Jesus not only gives you a new clean heart when He saves you, but He also gives you the strength to keep your heart fully directed toward Godly values.