I was reading in Jacob and he was condemning the people for not being pure in heart and told them that they would get in big trouble from God if they did not become pure in heart Jacob 3:3. It also says in the scriptures that if you become pure in heart then you will see God 3 Nephi 12:8. The Lord has commanded us to become pure in heart. If we do then we will be blessed. D&C 136:11
I think that
your heart is your spiritual self. It is the part of you that makes the
decisions. It is also the representation of who you are. God can write things
on your heart. It is kind of like your communication with heaven. Your organ
also holds some of your personality.
“In the
science journal Discover (2004), A. Burdick reviewed a book by Charles Siebert
called “A Man after His Own Heart.” The
journal reported that Seibert’s book said, “that the heart is not mere pump, as
some physicians still insist, but a sophisticated participant in the regulation
of emotion. The heart has a mind of its
own: It secretes its own brain-like
hormones and actively partakes in a dialogue among the internal organs – a
dialogue on which cardiac researchers are only beginning to eavesdrop. The heart likewise undergoes all manner of
organic change inflicted on it by the tempestuous brain and its
neurochemicals. As one doctor explains,
people do suffer heartbreak, literally.”
“Siebert’s
book also mentioned William Schroeder, who was the second recipient of the
Jarvik-7 artificial heart. “The
patient’s mental state was another matter.
Schroeder was weepy and deeply despondent. (Barney Clark, the first Jarvik-7 recipient, expressed a wish to
die or be killed.) The blood still
circulated, but something vital – some emotionally charged communication
between heart and mind – had been lost . . . Affirming all [alleged] myths, the
heart truly is a seat of human emotion.
The Jarvik-7, in contrast, was deaf to the song of human experience;
built to invigorate its patient, it instead alienated him, supply Schroeder with
everything but the will to live. He had
the look, Siebert writes, ‘of a man who has lost his heart.‘” Conquering Spiritual Evil pages132-133
What does pure mean? I
looked it up in the dictionary and it said free
from anything
of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind, free from extraneous
matter. If we are totally pure, then we will not
have any sin.
In Psalms79:9, it says that they asked God to purge them of their sins. Without God, we
cannot become totally pure. In proverbs 16:6, it says that men are purged
because of truth and mercy. People go away from evil because they fear God. Do
you fear God enough to totally abandon sin and purify your heart? Go to God
when you don’t think that you can do whatever you are trying to do. God will
help you when you ask. It might not be the kind of help that you are expecting.
In Alma5:13-22 it gives a good description on how we should end up. Have we had a
change of heart? I haven’t had a total change of heart, but it is changing.
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