It is completely absurd to refer to a human being as pure. We just don’t have to capability to be “pure”. Only one man who has ever been on this earth was “pure”. Christ set out a plan for us. His plan for us is this…..be like me. How easy is that? Well, it is about the most uneasy thing I can imagine. We just don’t get it. We don’t get love, we don’t get peace, we don’t get faith and most of all I don’t think we really get Jesus. We will spend our lives trying to understand how this man loved so purely, lived so purely and spoke with such purity, but we might never truly understand.
Here is the mind blowing part though……it’s okay. That day on the cross our impurities became pure. God’s sacrifice for us was meant to let us know that we are here for a reason, yes, but that our shortcomings (which are too many to mention) as humans are not what God sees when he looks at us. Our impurities are not part of his picture of us. We are called to live like Christ. It will be a lifelong struggle to truly understand what that means, but as long as we are trying, and searching and realizing when we have fallen, and asking God to forgive us for being so…so…human, we will be pure in God’s eyes.
We are pure when Christ becomes our life, not when we achieve his purity. 
What does Christ mean to your life?
Love and Peace,
Grant
One Response to “Purely Impure”
I think that what you said about our purity is based on our acceptance of God, not our actual ability to be pure, couldn’t be more correct. And i know that it is hard for us to know that we will always be sinning (we are not perfect) and that it is very hard to except because that means we hurt God more than once. But it says in scripture to not give up. There is a reward that will do much more than just balance out our pain and suffering. Our pain and hurt wont even equal even a fraction to how joyous we will be in heaven.
Christ means everything to me. He is my life. I love him more than i love anyone on this earth. The fact that i am constantly trying to be more like him, and be an example of him can be hard because its a huge goal that i will never fully get to. But the fact that he is my goal is also encouraging. I mean you dont get much more perfect than Jesus eh?