我們一直在談論八福中的第六福「清心的人有福了！因為他們必得見神。」我們今天得多花一天的時間來思想這節經文。這福的最後一句往往被人誤解。很多人相信這句話指聖徒在天上那永恆的賞賜。丁尼生（Tennyson）在他著名的詩句中表達了這種思想：「我經過那審判台後，希望可以面對面看見我的領航員。」

不過，這句話包含的思想不隻是在天堂見到神，而是在地上也見到神。看見神是表示在一切事情裡都看見神。讓我用另一種方式來表達這個意思：看不見神是找不到生命的意義，是在任何事情中都看不見目的；這種情況會給人帶來感情上的重擔和絕望，什至會令人走上自殺之路。正如有人指出：「那些看不見『為什麼』的人，沒有多大能量應付那些『什麼』。」

看見神就是認識他，感受他的接納，明白得到赦免和更新是什麼意思。克拉默（Raymond Cramer）表達得很美麗，他說：「清心、看見神，就是從裡面，而不是從外面來看一個染色玻璃窗。清心的人察覺到大部分人忽略的現實。他們對神是肯定的。」要看見神，便必須要清心，因為我們必須先在我們的內裡看見神、感受神，然後才能在其他地方看見他和感受到他。你倘若在內心看見了神，你在外面就不會看不見他。

We spend one more day meditating on the words: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." The concluding words of this Beatitude are often misunderstood. Many believe them to have reference to the saints' eternal reward in heaven. Tennyson expressed this thought in his famous lines: "I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar."

The thought contained in this phrase, however, is not so much related to seeing God in heaven, but to seeing God now. Seeing God means seeing God in everything. Let me put it another way: not to see God is to fail to find the meaning of life and to see no purpose in anything. Such a condition, one must admit, produces an emotional overload on the personality that leads inevitably to despair. Some who fall prey to this mood can end up committing suicide. As one person commented: "Those who can't see the why have little energy to cope with the what."

Seeing God is being acquainted with Him, sensing His acceptance, comprehending what it means to be forgiven and made anew Raymond Cramer puts it beautifully when he says: "To the pure in heart, seeing God is viewing a stained glass window from the inside rather than the outside. The pure in heart are aware of a reality which most people miss. They are sure of God." Seeing God must be connected with purity of heart, for we must see and sense God first in our own inner being before we can see Him and sense Him elsewhere. See Him within and you will not fail to see Him without.