2013

At the end of 2012 mine and my husband's Adult Bible Fellowship class shepherd challenged us to write down and hold each other accountable for some goals that we desired to accomplish in the up-coming year. I thought hard about what I wanted to pursue in the year 2013 and I came up with quite a few goals. The three goals that were the most intimidating and ambitious, to me, were; to improve on some of my artistic abilities and use them to help my family financially, to write a book, and to do an in-depth personal bible study on purity. The last one mentioned is what I hope to continue to write about in my future posts throughout the year. The idea was spawned earlier in the year as my ABF shepherd went through the beatitudes one by one in our class lessons. Through the discussion of the verse that exclaims "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" I realized that there is so much more to purity than I had imagined. From the start of my adolescent years purity was something that I had a deep and intense struggle with, but with that temptation came the passion to pursue purity in my life. Yes, I failed on many occasions but I was able to keep many of the standards and commitments I had made, as a teen, until my wedding day. As I entered married life I discovered that all those struggles and temptations, that for some reason I thought would go away, only seemed to linger in my life. So, as I begin this study, and admit that the concept of scriptural purity is so much more than I had previously thought, I have challenged myself to pursue a better understanding of what God intends true purity of heart to be. For then, I will see God.