Matthew 5:8 says this, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”  I’ll tell you what, I want to see God.  I want to see God work in me, through me and in those around me.  This is the desire of my heart.  However the desire of God’s heart is to have His children be pure in heart, or to have pure hearts.  Pure means, “To be singular in substance, without any imperfections or impurities.”  

Are our hearts so focused on Christ, and God alone that we are not swerving to the left or to the right?  Are we keenly seeking after God with everything we have?  Are we solely committed to God and what He desires for our life?  That’s a pure heart.

I’ve mentioned this a couple times before, I’ve been reading a blog from a Pastor named Pete Wilson.  Pete is the Pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville Tennessee.  The title of his blog is “without wax“.  Pete writes as well as other scholars that in the old days cracks in pottery were filled with wax, and then they were sold on the market as being solid, and being quality vessels that you could trust your finest liquids and oils in.  However, the only way to test to see if the pot was pure and perfect and sincere was to place it under the test of fire.  It was only under the test of fire that you were able to tell if a pot was true, pure or sincere.  We get our word sincere from the latin phrase sine cere, meaning “without wax”.  

If we want to be used by God, and if we want to see God, we need to loose the wax.  We need to see where we are broken, and cracked.  Sometimes God may need to cause a little heat in our lives to get us to the point of conviction, or in my thoughts the point of restoration.  See, if you don’t know that you’re cracked, you aren’t going to seek restoration.  Heat is a good thing.  Those trials that God has in your life right now are for good.  James writes, “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” (James 1:2-4)  

If you would let me translate that into the Peter Gowesky Version it would read something like this.  

Hey man, it’s a good thing when God turns up the heat in your life.  It’s the heat that helps to forge you and fire you into the vessel that God wants you to be.  A vessel that has no cracks, no imperfections, and is without wax covering up, or trying to hide certain flaws.  This is part of the process of you becoming a sincere, pure follower of God.

Here’s the bad news.  We are all cracked.  Not anyone of us are perfect and without defect or blemish.  (Romans 3:23)

Here’s the Good news.  God says if we turn to Him, and tell Him that we are cracked and need healing, He’ll do it!  (Romans 10:9)

Where does the wax need to drip from your life?