Blessed Are The Pure In Heart For They Will Write Great Worship Songs?

As a worship writer, if I am writing from a place of right motives, I am trying to use the vehicle of a song to let people see a new picture of God or a more familiar picture of God that will remind them of who God is and what He has done. Hopefully, that reminder or that new perspective will cause them to want to engage God directly and gush over how amazing and beautiful and merciful He is. But in order to describe something I have to have seen it or, more importantly, in order to describe someone, I have to know them.

It's interesting that before the fall, Adam and Eve could engage God directly with all of their senses. They walked in the garden with their creator and were able to see Him, hear Him, touch Him, and I would imagine they could even smell the air of Heaven on Him. But after the fall, they could only hear Him and that has been the plight of man since that time for "no man could see God and live"...and then there was Jesus.

Jesus came and once again, we could see, hear, touch and smell the Creator. Maybe we didn't know it at the time but God was allowing us back in to the intimacy that was once shared in the garden. And it was Jesus that uttered these beautiful words especially for anyone who may one day seek to describe God and His attributes.."Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God". Now, obviously, this present generation doesn't get to experience what must have been such the amazing experience of getting to engage God in every way through Jesus but it is through Jesus and what He did to restore us that makes it possible to have a pure heart and, based on his words, allows us to once again see God.

So what does it mean to have a pure heart? what does it mean to be pure? I don't know if I have a complete answer for that but I have a few guesses at least in how it relates to songwriting... I think having a pure heart means that you fight to have right motives that are agenda free in dealing with people...I think it means that you are a person of your word..I think it means that you fight the tendency that is within all of us to use people or even use the Gospel for personal gain...and when you do find yourself crossing that line, that you make it right by confessing it and apologizing to whom you have wronged...I think when we begin to fight for these things, we begin to see God a little more clearly and that allows us to describe Him with right motives and a love for sharing with God's people through our songs what we have seen in Who we know.