A scripture “mash-up” to ponder, from the Sermon on the Mount, and from Alma.
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
Matthew 5: 8
”I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands? I say unto you, can you look up, having the image of God engraven upon your countenances?”
Alma 5:19
“Perhaps the pure in heart need go no further than their own mirror to see God.”
– MMM –
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
-Unfortunately, I still see plain old me staring back. Maybe as I get older, wiser, purer, and my vision gets blurrier.
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I bet you’re not looking hard enough to see the purity. I’ve seen it.
Sometimes the Spirit hits me so hard that I involuntarily cry out. This was one of those times. I don’t see the face of God — yet — when I look in the mirror. But I do see the face of someone who loves Him. Maybe, as you said, when I am older, wiser, purer.
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I had this scripture to read in Sunday School a few weeks ago (the Sermon on the Mount one) and later that night, I realized that is the exact same wording and promise as those that relate to Zion, or the Church of the First Born. (Zion is the pure in heart)
Even though I *know* that Christ is the source for all revelation, sometimes the NT seems a little more like oft repeated literature than scripture. It was a moment of insight for me to see that He knows the end from the beginning.