“Blessed are those whose thoughts are pure.
They will see God.”
They will see God.”
—
Matthew 5:8
(GW)
Blessedness of heart translates
into purity of thought. And those who think well tend most to know how God
thinks – they ‘see’ God. Those who knew Jesus knew truth. They saw the truth in
him. This was because their hearts had been purified by the repentance from
their sins. Those who claimed faith in Christ because of the Father’s gift of
grace learned that, in Jesus, was God.
Those who believe upon Christ
have seen God?
Those who believe upon Christ
will also see God.
They saw in Jesus reason for hope, and, because they believed, they were
able to trust and obey; they took Jesus’ words to heart and, hence, were
purified, because they agreed they needed cleansing. They will also see God in
eternity. God will become for them an eternal King in eternity.
***
When we allow God to purify our
hearts we agree that the Lord will purge from us both the motive and agency of
wrongdoing.
Then we begin to do things with a
piqued conscience. We become more acute hearers of that still, silent voice in
us that says, “Do this,” and “don’t do that.”
As soon as we begin to backslide,
however, we hear his voice less, and though that might appear very comforting
to have God’s Spirit back off, especially when we’re challenged, we are not
served by thinking, acting, speaking, and doing in ignorance.
It could be argued convincingly
that a believer, who is already a partaker in grace, is not perturbed by the
Spirit’s challenge – that’s a test of a Christian’s heart: do we wish to obey?
We only ‘see’ God when we have
been enlightened by truth. And those the truth enlightens become worshippers of
God.
Those who earnestly seek God find
truth; those who earnestly seek truth will ultimately find God.
***
QUESTIONS in REVIEW:
1. Do we need to believe first in
order to see truth, or is it the other way around (see truth and then believe)?
2. What place do our consciences
have in us seeing truth? How do we
improve our moral warehouses in conforming them to God’s truth?
3. How do you find God’s Spirit speaking
to you? It’s rare to hear some audible voice of God, but it is possible. How do
you know it’s God’s ‘voice’ speaking?
© 2015 S. J. Wickham.
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