Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
“To ‘see’ in the sense referred to here, signifies spiritual perception, and spiritual perception means just that capacity to apprehend the true nature of Being which we all so sadly lack. We live in God’s world, but we do not in the least know it as it is. Heaven lies all about us—it is not a distant locality afar off in the skies, but all around us now…” —Emmet Fox
In all likelihood most of us do not think about seeing God. We cannot, in fact, see God with the eyes of the flesh. And yet Jesus points out that this is exactly what we can expect if we become pure in heart. Because God is Spirit, we perceive God, as Fox suggests, through our spiritual perception, our intuitive faculty.
To be pure in heart is to seek God with a pure motive. We’re usually asking God for some kind of help. How often do we seek God for the sake of knowing and understanding the nature of God? This lack of understanding accounts for our failure to recognize the means by which our prayers are answered. We become still so we can hear an answer when in truth stillness is the answer. We run out searching for the very answer that is standing at our door and knocking.
There are no unresolved issues in God. With a pure heart, a pure motive to know God, we touch that level of completeness that brings resolution to life’s issues. We are prompted by the quiet movement of God at our center to think and act in ways that are in harmony with the emerging Presence. Sometimes we are moved to take bold action and sometimes we know we need to gather more strength and courage in stillness.
When you pray, seek to establish pureness of heart, pureness of motivation. If God is to become a guiding companion then it is important that you know God as the loving presence that is with you always. With all your asking, make sure you are also asking God to come forth into your awareness as the love and beauty that is the fulfillment of all your needs and desires.