Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. (Psalm 73: 1-2)
The Hebrew words translated here as stumbled and slipped both imply being stretched out, poured, or over extended. This is contrasted with bar lebab: the pure in heart.
The pure in heart are simple, clear, and sincere. The pure in heart are focused. The pure in heart have found their purpose and are committed to achieving that purpose.
In the seventh verse the psalmist writes of the wicked, "Their eye bulges from fatness; the imaginations of their heart run riot." The wicked are unfocused, undisciplined, greedy, and self-indulgent.
I have stumbled and lost my focus. I have slipped and undertaken much that is outside my purpose.
Like the psalmist I know, "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my true home forever." (verse 26)
The Hebrew words translated here as stumbled and slipped both imply being stretched out, poured, or over extended. This is contrasted with bar lebab: the pure in heart.
The pure in heart are simple, clear, and sincere. The pure in heart are focused. The pure in heart have found their purpose and are committed to achieving that purpose.
In the seventh verse the psalmist writes of the wicked, "Their eye bulges from fatness; the imaginations of their heart run riot." The wicked are unfocused, undisciplined, greedy, and self-indulgent.
I have stumbled and lost my focus. I have slipped and undertaken much that is outside my purpose.
Like the psalmist I know, "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my true home forever." (verse 26)
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