Eternity in Your hands.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8)

I’m not even kidding, God is SO cool.  God led me to this verse last night while I was struggling to seek His face.  (Why does it have to be a fight sometimes?)  It slit right to my heart.  I didn’t necessarily feel a whole lot; it wasn’t like one of those huge, instant revelations.  But I knew that the verse was meant for me to read at that particular time.

I was still thinking about it today and tried a couple of different times to write something significant about it, but nothing seemed to come out right.  So I tried to just set it aside and work on some schoolwork.  I pulled up my health homework, and started looking up the Scriptures that I was supposed to write out and draw inferences from.  (Gotta love home schooling.)

And guess what the first verse was!

Yep.  Matthew five, verse eight.

I think I almost screamed.

God never fails to amaze me!!  And you know what’s even cooler?  It says in Isaiah 55:11, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”  And in Titus 1:2, it says that God cannot lie.  So let’s pull out our good ol’ geometric reasoning and conclude something here:  God said that the pure in heart shall see Him…and He can’t lie…and the words which He speaks will always come true…so, that means that if my heart is pure before Him, I’m going to see Him.

I hope I didn’t lose you.  But this all goes back to my first post about waiting on Him.  Isaiah 40:31—“Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength…”  Lamentations 3:26—“It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”  Micah 7:7—“Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.” 

God is so faithful.  He hasn’t left you or me out to dry.  Wait…wait…wait.  One day you’ll look up and realize that without all that waiting, you wouldn’t even be in the right place to receive what God wants to give you!  He’s there to fight for and with you, and guess what…He’s already won the battle, for it’s His, not ours!  Isn’t that great news? 

I honestly don’t know if this is making sense to anyone.  I’m not even sure it’s making sense to me quite yet.  I know all of the above with my brain, but I’d really like to know it with my heart.  And when I say know, I mean believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

But back to the topic that started me on all this!

If you’re wondering how to be “pure in heart”, here’s what you do:  pray.  See? Simple as that.  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”  (Psalm 51:10; I hope I’m not boring you with all the Scripture references.)  He will forgive you, wash you, cleanse you, refresh you, all in His ever-perfect timing.

He loves you and can’t wait to show you His face.  So keep pressing in; He won’t let you down.

Deuteronomy 7:9—“Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.”

P.S.  Is anyone else excited for CHRISTMAS!??  Only 16 more days!  Shhh…I haven’t gotten a single present for anyone…

Oh well!  It’s the spirit of Christmas I love the most anyway.

And just because I can say it:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!