Inner Purity

10 Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “Listen,” he said,“and try to understand. 11 It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.” 16 “Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked. 17 “Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer. 18 But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you. 19 For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. 20 These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”

- Matthew 15:10-11,16-20

Yeshua was teaching about inner purity at this particular time. Purity in thoughts and in your heart is what GOD is after. Yeshua says whatever we eat does not affect our thoughts or heart. Yes it may affect our health, we can have certain illnesses when we do not eat right. But this is not what affects our character as a person. It is how we respond to situation and things, it is the motives of our hearts that we are judged by GOD and not by what we eat. The heart is the center of a person. Whatever is in our hearts is our GOD.

Earlier before that Yeshua taught in Matthew 6:21 Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. Therefore we should watch out and be aware more of with what we think about than what we eat or drink. We should be careful to keep ourselves healthy yes, but these are physical things that pass away in time. What we allow to come to our thoughts be it doubt, hope, lies or truth what we allow to come into our hearts will greatly affect who we are and it make us to be either better or worse. We should eat the words of GOD everyday and think about HIS love and His ways so that we reflect and mirror the greatness and goodness of GOD.