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

Thanks to my mother-in-law, I have recently discovered T.W. Hunt. He died on December 11, 2014. “T.W. Hunt met Jesus yesterday,” Southwestern President Paige Patterson said in a Dec. 12 statement. “It was a meeting of a faithful servant and his Lord, to be sure. But in a sense, it was just a reunion of old friends, because few men ever walked with God like Enoch and T.W. Hunt. via

Just to give you a clue what kind of man he was. A servant of the Lord. He wrote a handful of great books, and I just finished The Mind Of Christ.

It’s one of those books that you can’t put down because the Father is using it to renew your mind and ignite a fire in your soul. But also one you want to re-read and sit with for a few months. There will probably be a handful of posts with my reflections and learnings from this book.

In one chapter he talks about each beatitude. He writes, “the first four are keys to God’s heart. There we learn of God. The second four are the keys to expressing Christ.”

If we reserve a part of our heart for some earthly affection that separates us from God or takes precedence over God, we are not pure. All the loves of our life are related to and spring from our love for God. Being pure in heart does not require a perfect performance. Rather it requires our giving our whole selves to the Lord. T.W. Hunt

This is both challenging and beautiful to me. How about you?

It doesn’t require a perfect performance, but a mindset shift, a giving of my entire self to God and His Kingdom work. A choosing of divine affections over earthly affections.

It’s letting our passion and love and freedom and joy spring from our relationship with Him.

Lord, help us be devoted completely to You. Prune away the things that are fighting for our love. Give us eyes to see You.