Seeing God Now

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

In what sense may we see God now?

Martin Lloyd-Jones offers some helpful thoughts:

“As with all the other Beatitudes, the promise is partly fulfilled here and now. In a sense there is a vision of God even while we are in this world. Christian people can see God in a sense that nobody else can. The Christian can see God in nature, whereas the non-Christian cannot. The Christian sees God in the events of history. There is a vision possible to the eye of faith that no-one else has. But there is a seeing also in the sense of knowing Him, a sense of feeling He is near, and enjoying His presence. You remember what we are told about Moses in that great eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Moses endured ‘as seeing him who is invisible.’ That is a part of it, and that is something that is possible to us here and now. ‘Blessed are the pure in heart.’ Imperfect as we are, we can claim that even now we are seeing God in that sense; we are ‘seeing him who is invisible’. Another way we see Him is in our own experience, in His gracious dealings with us. Do we not say we see the hand of our Lord upon us in this and that? That is part of the seeing of God. // But of course that is a mere nothing as compared with what is yet to be.” (Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, vol. 1, p. 114)

So, while the best is yet to come, nevertheless, we may increasingly see God in our lives now.

May you see God!