Purify me
Yesterday we discussed passion and purpose. We have one more character trait to consider in our "P" List which is purity. Now, this sometimes gets overlooked in our consideration of character traits to "put on" because we don't live in a very "pure" world, do we? It is hard to make pure choices when all around you others are bombarding you with all kinds of wrong ones. Purity is the freedom from anything which debases (reduces in quality or value), contaminates (adding/mixing in that which makes unclean), or pollutes (corrupts or defiles). In the most literal sense, impurity is the "adding in" of something which does not belong. That which does not belong actually changes the consistency or integrity of what does. You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. (Matthew 5:8 MSG) But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginn...