Matthew: 5-8.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

The important thing is to make a beginning.  God's Spirit will let us know where to go from there.

Our reading should be towards delighting in Him, gazing at His beauty as David said in
Psalm:27-4.  "One thing I ask of The Lord , this is what I seek:  that I may dwell in the house
Of The Lord  all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in his temple."

When we approach God in that way it inclines us to want more of Him.  There's no need to worry
about texts that we don't understand.  Jesus said to His disciples, "I have much more to say to you,
more than you can now bear".(John:16-12).  There's much that we will never know, but some of
The hard questions will be answered when we're ready for them.

God can never be understood through the intellect.  Insight arises from purity of heart - from love,
from humility, and a desire to obey.  It's the pure in heart who see God.  The more of God's truth
we know and want to obey the more we know.

George MacDonald wrote:-  the words of The Lord are seeds sown in our hearts by the sower.
          They have to fall into our hearts to grow.  Meditation and prayer must
           water them and obedience keep them in the light.  Thus they will
            bear fruit for the Lord's gathering.


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