Clean Glasses

I wear glasses. My doctor says I need to to see more clearly. Now for me I do not wear them nearly as much as a I should. Therefore, due to my lack of participation, I do not clean my glasses often either. So when I do wear them I must clean them before use. Now this is a simple statements, but let me enter a verse from the Sermon on the Mount here, as recorded in Matthew 5-7 in the New Testament.

Jesus states, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Yet, is the reverse of this true?

"If you are impure, you shall see God."

I would say so. Impurity may prohibit people to see God clearly or at all. Just as my glasses because dirty so are life can be dirty. Glasses need to be cleaner at times. Hearts, too, must be cleaner at times. The heart determined how the Ancients perceived the world and so we too must have a clean heart. A heart that is pure serves others and not just self. A heart that is clean allows other people in and an impure heart lets no one in to see how dirty it can become.

If our eyes cannot see God, then they cannot serve humanity either. God seeks for us to have clean heart, because out of our heart the actions flow. A vision must be clean. Our hearts must be clean. If we do not have clean hearts we cannot see God, ourselves, or the world clearly.

Therefore go and make your heart clean. I shall do the same.

May we see the world as God sees the world. May we see people the way God sees people; with clean hearts.