Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). But in this life, where can you find a pure heart? How can your heart be made pure? (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake There is a link between breast cancer and bras, states Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness and naturopathy. (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 John 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
By beholding, we become changed. (Read 2 Corinthians 3:18.) Dwelling on purity, we become pure, says Pastor Flemons. Purity defined is this: whatever is true and honest and just and lovely and of a good report. (Read Philippians 4:8.)
That’s not gossip or negative things. When we dwell on the ugly past of others or even of ourselves, says Pastor Flemons, we are showing that our hearts are defiled. We haven’t been converted. God says His mercies are new every morning. (Read Lamentations 3:22 and 23.) As we confess our sins, God “is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). That means confessed and forsaken sins committed yesterday are as they never were. And today, you can be new. That is because if “any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new,” according to the Word of God in 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Pastor Flemons says that there will be many people whose lives have been stained with sin–gross sin–who will be in heaven. They will have purified their lives on this side of heaven by dwelling on the purity of God’s Word. Meanwhile, others who wouldn’t dare allow themselves to commit the same kind of gross sins will be lost, because they choose to dwell on the ugly past sins of others and gossip about them.
The inspired commentary on the pure in heart is found in the book, Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, by Ellen White:
“The Jews were so exacting in regard to ceremonial purity that their regulations were extremely burdensome. Their minds were occupied with rules and restrictions and the fear of outward defilement, and they did not perceive the stain that selfishness and malice impart to the soul.
“Jesus does not mention this ceremonial purity as one of the conditions of entering into His kingdom, but points out the need of purity of heart. The wisdom that is from above “is first pure.” James 3:17. Into the city of God there will enter nothing that defiles. All who are to be dwellers there will here have become pure in heart. In one who is learning of Jesus, there will be manifest a growing distaste for careless manners, unseemly language, and coarse thought. When Christ abides in the heart, there will be purity and refinement of thought and manner.
“But the words of Jesus, “Blessed are the pure in heart,” have a deeper meaning–not merely pure in the sense in which the world understands purity, free from that which is sensual, pure from lust, but true in the hidden purposes and motives of the soul, free from pride and self-seeking, humble, unselfish, childlike.”
(You may access the full chapter commentary on the Beatitudes in Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, by Ellen G. White here: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/mb/mb2.html.)
A pure heart will be found in a complete surrender to God. Pastor Flemons says, “This sinful body can have a pure mind.”
For Health’s Sake…
The lymph glands in the breast need freedom to flow to release toxins from the body. Push-up bras, synthetic bras, underwire and strapless bras hinder this healthy drainage. Instead they trap toxins in the breast.
Cotton bras are recommended for healthy breasts. They allow the area to breathe. They may not be as sexy as the push-up or strapless bras, but at least they won’t cause you to be dressed to kill–yourself.
Two books recommended to read for more details about this topic include Dressed to Kill by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer and Thy Nakedness by Gwen and Rick Shorter.