"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Matthew 5:8 (CSB)
How many have heard the statement
– “Honesty is the best policy”? Would you say this is True or False?
Actually, it is a false statement
– because in actuality there is no other policy. The world teaches us that
deception is acceptable. You know –
those “little white lies.” Well, it is a “half-truth.” But, all half-truths are
really whole lies.
Jesus came to turn things
right-side up.
Charles Swindoll in "Growing
Deep in the Christian Life," writes about a man who bought fried chicken
dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon. The attendant at the fast
food outlet, however, inadvertently gave him the proceeds from the day’s
business - a bag of money (much of it cash) instead of fried chicken.
“After driving to their picnic
site," Swindoll writes, "the two of them sat down to enjoy some
chicken. They discovered a whole lot more than chicken - over $800! Now many
people would have kept the money, and bought themselves a lunch much nicer than
KFC!
But this man did something
unusual. He quickly put the money back into the car and drove all the way back.
Mr. Clean got out, walked in, and became an instant hero. "By then, the
manager was frantic. The guy with the bag of money looked the manager in the
eye and said, ’I want you to know I came by to get a couple of chicken dinners
and wound up with all this money here.’
"Well, the manager was
thrilled to death. He said, ‘Let me call the newspaper. I’m gonna have your
picture put in the local newspaper. You’re one of the most honest men I’ve ever
heard of.’ "To which the man quickly responded, ‘Oh, no. No, no - don’t do
that!’
Then he leaned closer and
whispered, ‘You see, the woman I’m with is not my wife.’”
Harder to find than lost cash is
a perfect heart. Jesus teaches us that we need to be pure in heart at all times
and in all ways.
Check-up time – how is your
heart?
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