5:8
Being pure in heart is not always commended in the world. We can be urged to be pragmatic, to use questionable (or downright evil) methods, the ends justifies the means. But it is the pure in heart who will seek God. We need to have integrity in our lives. There is a very temporal realisation of the promise here as well. When we mix unrighteous methods into our ways our thinking becomes confuse, we cannot see clearly, we certainly cannot see what God is saying or wants us to do. When we have a pure heart it is an awful lot easier to see what the Lord is doing, and to see what He wants us to do.
5:9
People are always trying to stir up trouble. Just look at politics and you will see that parties always try to find fault and show that some decision is the worst possible thing that could be done. Sadly we can be the same in the church, where one theological group will go out of its way to diss another theological group. It is the peacemakers who are seeking to do things God’s way. As has often been said, it is peacemakers, not the peaceable. This does not mean we never say that differences matter. However, it is the peacemakers who are the children of God.
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