Comments on: “Blessed are the pure in heart…” http://blahalife.com/blog/2009/08/03/blessed-are-the-pure-in-heart/ Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:19:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: daddio http://blahalife.com/blog/2009/08/03/blessed-are-the-pure-in-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-23432 daddio Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:53:25 +0000 http://blahalife.com/?p=379#comment-23432 Another thought crossed my wondering... It is as the world is so it does that is reversing the phrase God has given to fit its hopes and dreams... the blessed are pure in heart. The concept is reversed as if only those who are 'blessed' with the best the world has to offer are 'pure in heart' because of their 'blessed' state... May I never be removed from the truth you shared. May I my focus be on His truth... Another thought crossed my wondering… It is as the world is so it does that is reversing the phrase God has given to fit its hopes and dreams… the blessed are pure in heart. The concept is reversed as if only those who are ‘blessed’ with the best the world has to offer are ‘pure in heart’ because of their ‘blessed’ state…

May I never be removed from the truth you shared. May I my focus be on His truth…

]]> By: Daddio http://blahalife.com/blog/2009/08/03/blessed-are-the-pure-in-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-23338 Daddio Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:10:54 +0000 http://blahalife.com/?p=379#comment-23338 This morning Romans 7 made the law and the flesh very clear to me. After the great chapters on sinners, justification, and the battle of being dominated by choice I became very curious how Paul transistions to telling his struggle between doing what he doesn't want to do and not doing what he does want to do. That transitional Scripture was verses 12, 14: "Wherefore is law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good... For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin." So much is said about the law these days it gets old and sometimes to the point of distraction. According to this the law is: HOLY and SPIRITUAL. The commandment is: HOLY, JUST, GOOD. I am: CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN. Never ever, ever detract from the law and the commandments. They are HOLY. They are what I am not. There is not even a basis for comparison. Even more so the commandment makes that upon which the CARNAL self dwells, Verse 13: "But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful." So why does Paul, why do I have that struggle of not doing what I want to do, and doing what I don't want to do? "So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Wait a second. ...the law of God? ...the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus? ...the law of sin and death? I must realize that there are laws in everything God is and has made. Elsewhere I read about the law of love and others. But the law first referred to is that of God's law and commandments given to Moses. They could not live up to it then, nor can we today. Why? Because of Adam (Romans 5:12) and since man is carnal, of fleshly direction and desire. What has God done to change my view of Him? To make the realization that what I am is worse than I thought (exceedingly sinful), but that in Christ Jesus there is therefore no condemnation. O to hear his words, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more." The deeper I am in the hole the narrower becomes my focus on the one place where the Light is. This morning Romans 7 made the law and the flesh very clear to me. After the great chapters on sinners, justification, and the battle of being dominated by choice I became very curious how Paul transistions to telling his struggle between doing what he doesn’t want to do and not doing what he does want to do. That transitional Scripture was verses 12, 14: “Wherefore is law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good… For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.” So much is said about the law these days it gets old and sometimes to the point of distraction. According to this the law is: HOLY and SPIRITUAL. The commandment is: HOLY, JUST, GOOD. I am: CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN. Never ever, ever detract from the law and the commandments. They are HOLY. They are what I am not. There is not even a basis for comparison. Even more so the commandment makes that upon which the CARNAL self dwells, Verse 13: “But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.” So why does Paul, why do I have that struggle of not doing what I want to do, and doing what I don’t want to do? “So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Wait a second. …the law of God? …the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus? …the law of sin and death? I must realize that there are laws in everything God is and has made. Elsewhere I read about the law of love and others. But the law first referred to is that of God’s law and commandments given to Moses. They could not live up to it then, nor can we today. Why? Because of Adam (Romans 5:12) and since man is carnal, of fleshly direction and desire. What has God done to change my view of Him? To make the realization that what I am is worse than I thought (exceedingly sinful), but that in Christ Jesus there is therefore no condemnation. O to hear his words, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more.” The deeper I am in the hole the narrower becomes my focus on the one place where the Light is.

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