Matt 5:8

Discipleship Habit 12 Holy and Peaceable Life
Discipleship Question: Are you living a holy and peaceable life that is attractive to others?
Matt 5:8
• We’ve humbled ourselves, going down three steps to see our true position in God, now we’re coming up. Coming up we start to seek to develop some positive attitudes, in v6 to hunger and thirst for his righteousness, in v7 to be merciful, now in v8 to be pure in heart.
• Purity of heart speaks of the intention of our heart, do we have the right motivations, why are we doing what we are doing, is it about God or about us?
• Think about some of the good/virtuous things you have done in the last week, and examine the reason WHY, why did you do that thing, was it pure in intention?
• Spend time confessing the times that you lacked pure intentions.
• Write down this verse on a small card and put it in your pocket, and during the next 24 hours keep on reflecting on your motivations about what you are doing.
• Perhaps each day you could write down a bible verse and keep it in your pocket as a reminder of that biblical truth for the day, this is a good way to get the Word of God from your head into your daily actions.