“You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.” (Matthew 5:8 // The Message)
Pure-hearted and clear-seeing are symbiotic. The pure in heart see God, and those who see God purify their hearts.
They see him because their vision is not impaired by idols competing for their attention. Trying to maintain two masters at the same time is inadvisable and, according to Jesus (Matthew 6:24), impossible. Focusing on two objects simultaneously blurs them both and makes us cross-eyed, double-minded, and unstable.
“When the heart is right, seeing will be right. All we need do is keep the lens clean. If your heart is cold, your vision is distorted.” Richard Rohr
While it’s true that we only “see a poor reflection [of him] as in a mirror,” the purer our heart, the better the reflection we’ll see today until one day we see him “face to face.”
[An excerpt from WHAT ON EARTH? Considering the Social Implications of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount]
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