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 lights 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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