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The Lost Years was formerly known as purexin.
the chinese word for heart is xin… so purexin is supposed to mean pure heart in a chinglish sort of way. why a pure heart? the bible talks about having a pure heart… Jesus in one of his sermons said ‘blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.’ that last part really speaks to me because there seems to be this universal desire for people to seek something beyond themselves, whether it be the secrets of the universe or success in life, or the drive to seek for some meaning or purpose, people want to see God.
so what does it mean to have a pure heart? that’s something i want to know. is the promise to see God a direct correlation with having a pure heart? does one imply the other? if having a pure heart enables a person to see God, will seeing God, mean that the person has a pure heart?
first, what does pure mean? being pure is a state where something is unblemished, untainted, unadulterated, free from moral fault or guilt, clean, unmixed… there seems to be two ways one achieves this purity… there may be more but i’ll just state two. one is remaining in one’s original, unadulterated form, the other way is taking something with impurities and putting it through an intense refining process to rid impurities in order to produce a pure substance.
i’m not sure if Jesus meant having a pure heart referred to someone who was able to keep all sorts of impurities from defiling the heart, or if he was referring to someone who was filled with impurities and went through a refining process… i seem to lean towards the second explanation just because i know the heart of man, always going astray.
when king david sinned against God, he prayed to God to ‘create in me a pure heart, and renew a steadfast spirit within me… restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.’ david goes through a process that humbles him and almost destroys him and his family but in the end he is right with God. he is called ‘a man after God’s own heart.’ i think he was made pure not because he was without sin, but because he was willing to trust God’s refining process to make him clean.
so this statement made by Jesus seems to be an encouragement to me, whether to those who are pure or to those who are in this refining process, it is a reminder that the hardships we face in life are not being faced in vain… it will lead us to God.