Blessed
are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8
A spiritual
kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach
of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here
waiting for our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to
us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.
As we begin
to focus upon God the things of the spirit will take shape before our inner
eyes. Obedience to the word of Christ will bring an inward revelation of the
Godhead (John 14:21-23).
This is not
by any trick of the imagination. May we not safely conclude that, as the
realities of Mount Sinai were apprehended by the senses, so the realities of
Mount Zion are to be grasped by the soul? The soul has eyes with which to see
and ears with which to hear!
Such an
inward revelation of the Godhead will give acute perception enabling us to see
God even as is promised to the pure in heart. A new God-consciousness will
seize upon us and we shall begin to taste and hear and inwardly feel the God
who is our life and our all.
There will
be seen the constant shining of the light that lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. More and more, as our faculties grow sharper and more sure, God
will become to us the great All, and His Presence the glory and wonder of our
lives! This is what will make heaven more real to us than any earthly thing has
ever been.
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