A Clean Heart

Psalm 51:10

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10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,

    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Jeremiah 29:13

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13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Matthew 5:8

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8 Blessed are the pure in heart,

    for they will see God.

Ephesians 3:17

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17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

I so often see the symbol of a heart repeated in nature that I'd like to think it is part of God's creative design, His wanting me to consider the condition of my own heart as it is a vessel for Him.  After asking Jesus into my heart as a child, I believed that was just where He was, even if I couldn't quite figure out how He fit.  While I know there's not a tiny Jesus walking around my heart, it's still a divine mystery how Christ dwells within; but He does and He even fits.  What's more amazing is His grace that keeps it clean!  

Happy Valentine's Day.    

Jon Foreman - White as Snow