Purity

Throughout my life, something that has been a difficult obstacle with my walk with Christ has been trying to be pure. According to dictionary.com, pure means free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminatingkind; free from extraneous matter. I have struggled throughout my whole life to live for God with a pure heart. I won't go into details but there have been a number of things during my life that have caused me to not be pure. As I look back though, I have learned a lot and I am trying to live a more Godly life in my actions. 
I want to now share a couple verses that have been applicable and helpful through my walk to a more pure lifestyle and also some verses that challenge me as a Christian.


Philippians 1:9-11
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.

Matthew 5:8
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
but the LORD weighs the spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Lord, help me to become pure.