"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Matthew 5:8 (CSB)
Yesterday we used the idea of photography
to emphasize our need to focus on God alone. When we focus our attention on
Jesus, we are seeing God in our midst. One of his names, “Emmanuel”, means “God
with us”.
There is no other person on the
face of the earth that can help us really see God. Jesus is the way, the truth, the life.
In a society that treats
spirituality as a mystic vending machine, come and buy what you want, mix and
match to suit your needs, we are called to give our hearts solely to Jesus
Christ.
In a society that demands
acceptance of every conceivable spiritual path to every imaginable image of
God, we are called to stand on the reality that there is one way to God, and
that way is Jesus Christ.
We are to show that world that we
trust in Jesus and Jesus alone to be our guide to God. We still need our instincts, our folklore, our
upbringing, our families, our schools, our governments, and all the other
institutions that help us in life.
But when it comes to pointing the
way to God, all these and everything else must bow before the one way to God -
his son Jesus Christ.
When we take this stand - we will
see God. We will see him at work in our lives now, and we will see him in
Heaven for all eternity.
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