Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.
If you say, “Show me your God,” I will tell you, “Are you ready to listen? Show me your dispositions, and I will show you my God.” First, show me whether the eyes of your mind can see, and the ears of your heart hear.
It is like this. Those who can see with the eyes of their bodies know what is happening in this life on earth. They get to know the differences among material things. They distinguish light and darkness, black and white, ugliness and beauty, elegance and inelegance, proportion and lack of proportion, excess and defect. The same is true of the sounds we hear: high or low or pleasant. So it is with the ears of our heart and the eyes of our mind to be able to hear or see God.
God can be seen by those who have the capacity to see him, provided that they keep the eyes of their mind open. All have eyes, but some have eyes that are shrouded in darkness, unable to see the light of the sun. Yet because the blind cannot see it, it does not follow that the sun does not shine. The blind man must trace the cause of his not seeing back to himself and his eyes. In the same way, that’s why you do not see; you have eyes in your mind that are shrouded in darkness because of your sins and evil deeds.
A person’s soul should be clean, like a mirror reflecting light. If there is rust on the mirror, he cannot see his face in it. In the same way, no one who has sin can see God.
But if you will, you can be healed. Hand yourself over to the doctor, and he will open the eyes of your mind and heart. Who is the doctor? It is God, who heals and gives life through his Word and Wisdom. Through his Word and Wisdom, he created the universe, for by his Word the heavens were established, and all their array by his Spirit. His Wisdom is supreme. God by Wisdom created the earth, by understanding he arranged the heavens, by his knowledge he hollowed out the depths, and the clouds began to pour out the dew.
If you understand this, and live in purity and holiness, and justice, you may see God. But, before all, faith and the fear of the Lord must dwell in your heart, and then you will understand all this.
Later, when you have laid aside mortality and been clothed in immortality, then you will see God according to your merits. God will raise up your flesh to immortality, along with your soul, and then, once you are made immortal, you will see the immortal One, if you believe in him now.
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