3 of the Be's

Matthew 5:8
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Matthew 5:3
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."


What does it mean to be pure in heart?
Pure (according to Dictionary.com) =
1. Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen.
2. Free from adulterants or impurities: pure chocolate.
3. Free of dirt, defilement, or pollution: “A memory without blot or contamination must be... an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment” (Charlotte Brontë).
4. Free of foreign elements.
5. Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous: a pure literary style.
6. Complete; utter: pure folly.
7. Having no faults; sinless: “I felt pure and sweet as a new baby” (Sylvia Plath).
8. Chaste; virgin.
9. Of unmixed blood or ancestry.

Pure (as I believe God sees it) = Holy (number 7 comes close)

Pure of Hear = Having Christ dwell in your heart
Living as Paul puts it in Titus 1, Above Reproach

And if that happens in our lives, we will see God, we will see Him not only at the end, but working in our lives!

What does it mean to be Poor in Spirit?
Seeing ourselves in light of Who God is!
We see this in the life of Isaiah! Isaiah 6
He comes face to face with God and all of His Holiness, and falls to His face and cries out, "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" (v. 5)

We need to come to an understanding that before the Holiness of Almighty God, we are but wreched worms! This is being poor in spirit.

Once we are here we understand that we are in desperate need of a Savior, of Jesus Christ and accepting Him as Lord and Savior fulfills the last part of the verse, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

What does it mean to mourn?
I do think that this is calling for us to mourn lost ones and mourn with others, but I think that there is a deeper calling here.
Once we get to the point of seeing ourselves in light of who God is, we start to see our sin in a different light. When once we enjoyed drinking, now what is the point? When once premarital sex or sex outside of marriage was fun, now it hurts.
Sin grieves the very Heart of God, He mourns our sins, and we should also mourn our sins. How many times have you gone before God and flippantly confessed sin, only to turn around and commit that sin again.
Do you think that if you had mourned over, grieved over, and cried through that sin, that things might change? Are you truly sorry for your sin? Or is Jesus kind of a "get out of jail free card?" I Jesus truly Lord of your life, is the life you are yielded fully to Him? Are there some areas that you hold on to and do not release control of to Jesus?

I want to encourage you to pray through these verses. God is bigger than any problem, and sin that you have. He promised that if you mourn (your sin), you will be comforted.

In Christ,

David