Matthew 5:8 says
"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God."
Ever since I first read this verse in the Beatitudes, I didn't understand the significance or the connection of purity of heart and seeing God. I used to say to myself "Okay. I don't understand. Huh?" But now, years later, I finally understand but it took me being purified in the process to guage the difference.
When my heart isn't pure, things are hazy. I'm not able to enjoy the relationships I have and the folks around of me because my heart isn't in the right place. For instance, I couldn't see the friends around me who needed to experience the love of Christ through me. I couldn't give them hope because my heart was only looking to satisfy my own needs at the moment. I was too busy to hear them. I couldn't love others wholeheartedly through the 5 love languages (quality time, acts of service, words of affirmation, gifts, and ???) because I was looking to myself to receive it. When your heart is pure, you can love with no bounds! You don't fear the rejection that may come. You are more sensitive to the little moments in the day when God is speaking directly to you. You see the hurting, the lonely, the lost, the orphans and the widows.
You see God.
It isn't something that is simply seen with the natural eye. The spiritual eyes get involved. Once those open, it's very hard to close them.
My ultimate desire is that my eyes never close to the vision that I now see; that my heart stays pure, in and every relationship and throughout the time I have left to walk this earth.
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