![]() ![]() My face hath sought after Thee Thy face, O Lord, will I seek (Psalm 26:1, 4, 8).Ī pure heart preserves the word of God as the seed sown in Christ's Parable of the Sower:īut that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience (Luke 8:15). My heart said unto Thee: I will seek the Lord. One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I seek after: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. The Lord is my light and my savior whom then shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life of whom then shall I be afraid?. The pure in heart are people who can clearly see God's real presence, and who can proclaim together with the Psalmist: He who has made his heart pure, writes Venerable Simeon the New Theologian in the Philokalia, will not only come to know the meaning and significance of things secondary and which exist after God, but on having passed through them all, will also see God Himself - in which is the extremity of good. That is, the life hidden from the physical eyes - the life of the spiritual world - is revealed to the pure in heart. According to Venerable John of the Ladder, Purity is the assimilation of a bodiless nature (Step 15). According to the words of the holy, righteous John of Kronstadt, a pure heart is meek, humble, guileless, simple, trusting, true, unsuspicious, gentle, good, not covetous, not envious, not adulterous. ![]() The pure heart and its vision of God are lofty concepts. ![]() But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness (Matthew 6:22-23). In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord said: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Spiritual contemplation is possible only with a heart that is pure. It contemplates whatever the eyes cannot see and the mind cannot grasp. The heart is the guardian of our spiritual life. In this commandment, Jesus Christ prompts us to achieve purity of heart. ![]()
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