SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/21/2020
11:13 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “The Result
of Holiness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 5:8
Message of the
verses: “"Happy
are the utterly sincere, for they will see God!”
In Today’s SD we will look at the
last main-section for Matthew 5:8. I
think that one of the things that we can do, and perhaps I should do as I look
at these sections and sub-sections is ask a question, for instance for today’s
we could ask “What are the Results of Holiness?”
The answer to what is the great
blessing of those who are pure in heart comes at the end of verse eight “they
shall see God.” MacArthur writes “The
Greek is in the future indicative tense and the middle voice, and a more
literal translation is, ‘They shall be continuously seeing God for themselves.’ It is only ‘they’ (the emphatic autos), the
pure in heart, who shall see God. Intimate
knowledge of and fellowship with God is reserved for the pure.”
It happens when a person has their hearts purified at
salvation that we begin to live in the presence of God, as we begin to see and
to comprehend Him with our new spiritual eyes.
We become similar to Moses, who saw God’s glory and then asked to see
more as recorded in Ex. 33:18, the one who is purified by Jesus Christ sees
again and again the glory of God. 2Co 3:18 But we all,
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory
to glory, just as from the Lord, the
Spirit.”
One of my favorite OT verses from
the Psalms is Psalm 42:1 “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul
pants for You, O God.” We can see from
this wonderful verse that it was the greatest hope of OT saints was to see
God. Job rejoiced when he was able to
say the following in Job 42:5 “"I have heard of You by the hearing of the
ear; But now my eye sees You.”
We conclude this SD and the comments
on Matthew 5:8 with a quotation from John MacArthur and then another quotation
from F. F Bullard.
“Purity of heart cleanses the eyes
of the soul so that God becomes visible.
One sign of an impure heart is ignorance, because sin obscures the truth
(John 3:19-20). Evil and ignorance come in
package. Other signs of an impure are
self-centeredness (Rev. 3:17), pleasure in sin, (2 Tim. 3:4), unbelief (Heb.
3:12), and hatred of purity (Mic. 3:2).
Those who belong to God exchange all of those things for integrity and
purity.” MacArthur then quotes F. F.
Bullard:
When I in righteousness at last
Thy glorious face shall see;
When all the weary night has passed,
And I awake with Thee,
To view the glories that abide,
Then and only then will I be satisfied.
5/21/2020 11:36
AM
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