<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+15:1-20">Matthew 15:1-20</span></span></p><p>Today we come to the Beatitude which is considered by many to be the most sublime of them all: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="mt+5:8">Matthew 5:8</span>). First we ask: What is meant by the term "heart"? According to the general use of the word in Scripture, it has reference to what goes on in the core of our being. The heart is more than just the seat of the emotions; it is the fount from which everything proceeds. In our reading today, our Lord put it thus: "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality '" and so on (v. 19). Dr Oswald Chambers said: "If a sinner really wishes to understand his heart, then let him listen to his own mouth in an unguarded frame for five minutes." Luke put it this way: "' the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks" (<span class="scriptRef" ref="lu+6:45">Luke 6:45</span>). It has been pointed out that the gospel is a religion of new things. It offers us all a new birth, a new life, a new hope, a new happiness, and, at the end of time - a new name. However, out of all these fascinating new things which Christ offers His children, none is perhaps more intriguing than His offer of a new heart. The promise is first given in the prophecy of Ezekiel: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you"  (<span class="scriptRef" ref="eze+36:26">Ezekiel 36:26</span>). Quite clearly, when it comes to spiritual things, the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart. Christ's offer of changing our hearts is one of the greatest promises of the Bible. Be encouraged: our Lord is not content with tinkering about on the surface of our lives - His goal is to purify our hearts. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">My Father and my God, slowly but surely I am coming under the sway of Your "beautiful attitudes". But I see You have more for me to discover. Hold me close as I go through Your spiritual heart surgery. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+51:1-10">Psalm 51:1-10</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+19:12-13">Psalm 19:12-13</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+79:9">Psalm 79:9</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What was the psalmist's prayer?</li><li>Make it your prayer today.</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean'." (v. 18) 

<p>If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? They rebelled against His Spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.<br><br>Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.<br><br>A whisperer separates the best of friends. § There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health. The truthful lip shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. § No man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. § Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.<br><br>Put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language … Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds. § For this is the will of God, your sanctification. § In their mouth was found no deceit.</p>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Evening Daily Light

 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep  watch over the door of my lips. 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">10 </sup>Jesus called the crowd to him and said, <woj>“Listen and understand.</woj> </span><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">11 </sup><woj>What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,   but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”  </woj> </span></p>

Jesus called the crowd to him and said, <woj>“Listen and understand.</woj>

Matthew 15:10

<woj>What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,<cr>1</cr>  but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”<cr>2</cr> </woj>

Matthew 15:11

 10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. 11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,   but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”  

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 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

Matthew 15:10-11

<p><span class="bible-text ">Jesus called the crowd to him and said, <woj>“Listen and understand.</woj> </span><span class="bible-text "><woj>What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,   but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”  </woj> </span></p>

 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them,   but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”  

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