Nor thereafter can you change it with human might.

With only authority to partake, not to produce, you must decide,

   Choosing to become in heart what you invite inside.

Only in a good heart can Christ live and His life demonstrate,

   His presence and grace there our life to emancipate.

The Son of  God was crucified: O! In His blood there is power.

   He purifies every heart who seeks Him in this hour.

In the hidden man of the heart you choose what is of worth:

   The purity of Jesus, or what is base in the earth.

Only by love for God will  you seek heart perfection,

   In that alone will there be willingness and subjection.  

Faith works by love to bring purity to maturity.

   Therefore love in order to believe, to know this spiritual security.

Your heart is spirit, the container of character woven in,

   A vessel of honor or dishonor revealing holiness or sin.

The most crucial decision in life is what your heart will be:

   Wicked, dark and bound, or full of light, righteous and free.

A good heart, to our Father is of great price,

   Abundant in His character, and toward sin not biased.

Remember, what is in the abundance of the heart, the mouth will declare;

   What you are, by your words you will share.

Upon your heart does the Lord gaze to search the depths there;

   Nothing is hid from His piercing eyes, all is laid bare.

The open invitation for Christ to come into your heart,

   Is only the beginning of purification, indeed only the start.

In the coming days, trials the Spirit uses, shall  reveal deeper things still-

   From greater cleansing to greater purity -  only if you will.

Within a good heart, golden seeds of character by Christ sown,

   Can never by temptation’s winds be moved or blown.

O!  This is true, if in you, faith and obedience have their way;

   Then by a worshipping spirit  the seeds of His character will stay.

Take heed and know only the pure in heart shall see God;

   The corrupt and defiled shall never His holy hill trod.

Since your heart is the seat and springs of life,

   With all diligence keep it, from sin and all its strife.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, you must cry;

   Renew a right spirit within me, that you do not pass me by.  

 By John L. Parault

“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”  Matt. 5:8

  “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not  yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.  And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.”  I John 3: 2-3