Pure part 3
The only way we can see God--really SEE Him--is with a pure heart. Because a pure heart is a clean heart. A heart that is undefiled by anything different than love. A heart full to overflowing WITH love. And to me, that's the key. Because what's in you--what you BELIEVE is in you--comes out of you. If you know and believe the love of Christ... then the love inside comes out. If you believe that the light of the world is shining IN you then it shines OUT of you. It (He, love) shines THROUGH you. But here's where we seem to get messed up: We think about ourselves (and each other, and everything else) in terms of good and evil. Duality. We think, "I have some good qualities, but then I also have some evil qualities. And I'm trying as hard as I can to make sure the good outweighs the evil." And that's the struggle. But Jesus didn't come so that we might struggle. He came so that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. Look at 1 John 1:5, "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." Did you catch that? God is pure. He's not "good and evil." He's not light AND dark. He's life. And His life is the light of men. Abundant life. Eternal life. Everlasting life. Resurrection life. So we need to stop thinking in terms of "good and evil." That's the completely wrong tree. That's the tree of death, and only one thing can come from the tree of death. Death! Jesus is the Tree of Life. And if He dwells in us--if the light is shining in us--then there can't be any darkness. In Him is no darkness at all. He's in you. In YOU is no darkness at all! Let me quote one of my favorite passages to hopefully sum this up: "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God" (Ephesians 3:16-19). Filled with the fulness of God. Undefiled by anything else. Pure. Seeing God with that pure heart because there is nothing else at all. The light shined and the darkness fled. Now we are filled with the light and can see everything--everyBODY--clearly. We can see God IN everything and everybody. We can see--and again I mean really SEE, or experience--love in everything and everybody. We can see the height and the length and the depth and the breadth of His love. We can see it (Him, love) everywhere we look. We can connect to one another on the deep Spirit to Spirit, Holy to Holy level where surface stuff stops mattering. We can truly begin to be different parts of the same body. Celebrating our differences and bearing each other up instead of tearing each other down. We can help each other to comprehend what it's all about. And what it's all about... is love!