Watch that Thought (4)

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. The Bible says: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, …” Philippians 6v8 (KJV). We can look at pure to mean “Free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from moral thought or defilement; free from tainting or polluting material; clean; wholesome.” (www.dictionary.com). How then can we have pure thoughts as opposed to impure thoughts?

As believers we need to be careful that our thoughts are pure towards God. James 4v8 (AMP) says “Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery].” Essentially our thoughts can be impure when we are wavering between God, and other things. When we are not fully committed to God. “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.” (Titus 1v15, KJV).

When our thoughts are pure, it is easy to believe God, to be taught of Him, to understand what He is saying to us, but when our thoughts become impure, then we begin questioning, God might not seem enough for us anymore, and we start looking for pleasures in other things. Let us draw near to God, purging ourselves of every impurity, any inferior or contaminated or perverse type of thinking. Let us “…be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12v2). Amen. 1 John 3v2-3 (KJV) also reminds us that “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.”  

Prayer

Father, we thank You for this day. You are indeed faithful and true. Father, we come to you today, asking for pure hearts. We ask that You sit as a refiner’s fire and fuller’s soap, purging us of every impurity, cleansing us o God, in Jesus name, amen.