我们一直在谈论八福中的第六福「清心的人有福了！因为他们必得见神。」我们今天得多花一天的时间来思想这节经文。这福的最后一句往往被人误解。很多人相信这句话指圣徒在天上那永恒的赏赐。丁尼生（Tennyson）在他著名的诗句中表达了这种思想：「我经过那审判台后，希望可以面对面看见我的领航员。」

不过，这句话包含的思想不只是在天堂见到神，而是在地上也见到神。看见神是表示在一切事情里都看见神。让我用另一种方式来表达这个意思：看不见神是找不到生命的意义，是在任何事情中都看不见目的；这种情况会给人带来感情上的重担和绝望，什至会令人走上自杀之路。正如有人指出：「那些看不见『为什么』的人，没有多大能量应付那些『什么』。」

看见神就是认识他，感受他的接纳，明白得到赦免和更新是什么意思。克拉默（Raymond Cramer）表达得很美丽，他说：「清心、看见神，就是从里面，而不是从外面来看一个染色玻璃窗。清心的人察觉到大部分人忽略的现实。他们对神是肯定的。」要看见神，便必须要清心，因为我们必须先在我们的内里看见神、感受神，然后才能在其他地方看见他和感受到他。你倘若在内心看见了神，你在外面就不会看不见他。

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.