“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5 v 8

Jesus is all about transforming us from the inside out. The beatitudes consequently are all about the heart. Our heart towards God and our heart toward others are evidence of our citizenship in the Kingdom of God. The tree is known by the fruit. If we lack any of these blessings as expressed in the beatitudes, we can know it is a heart issue.

Specifically this beatitude and the promise within – the promise to see God.

I cannot tell you how many times I have turned heavenward and called out “Where are you God? I cannot see you. I cannot feel you. Do you even hear me?”. Do you know this feeling? Where you long to encounter God in your misery and He is no where to be found. Oh how, the word of God reveals the truth! It is not that He is not present, right there beside us. God is everywhere. Yet we cannot see Him, even though we long to, because we are so blinded by the impurity of our heart.

It is a matter of urgency, dear reader. If anything, 2020 and continuing on in to this year, is a reminder to us that we are but lost if we cannot find God. If we cannot see Him close and know His ways. It matters. Our heart matters and our ability to see God matters.

This is why the Psalmist cries out:

“Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Psalms 139 v 23,24.