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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 6, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 8

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THE PURE IN HEART SHALL SEE GOD.

By GEO. W. PARKER.

The pure in heart hate sin because the law of God is engraven upon their hearts. They dread sin, because it brings sorrow. The pure in heart will seek to have good surroundings. They will be as a city set upon a hill, and will let their light shine, that their friends, and the honest-hearted in the society by which they are surrounded, may be led to come up and receive light, and cease their transgressions by keeping the commandments of the Lord.
Purity of heart is attainable. Let us seek it by ceasing to harbor impure thoughts and desires. Let us seek God in earnest, living prayer for strength to do his will. When the heart is separated from the body it becomes a dead body; and the heart separated from the prayer, makes it a dead prayer. Before we enter upon prayer, we should endeavor to prepare our hearts by thorough examination. Sift ourselves by examining, as Satan does by tempting. Let us cease to conspire against our King; at least, let us not present petitions for mercy and weapons of rebellion at the same time, for no prayers can find an answer from Heaven but such as first come from thence.
Every sincere prayer is a beam of light from the Sun of Righteousness, shining forth from the heavenly sanctuary and darting in upon our hearts, and from thence reflected back again. How important to those who “delight in the law of the Lord” that they keep it untarnished upon pure hearts, that the work of God may shine and glisten there, and reflect the sunbeams from the sanctuary back in gentle rays to the source of all light. Yes, let us keep our hearts pure, for the promise is that we shall see God. The sense of seeing, of all our senses the most difficult to satiate, will then be fully gratified. Our joy will be full “when we see the glory of the Lord.” The brightness of his glory will fill our vision, which will be as the open vessel which is cast into the sea; the waters first fill it and then swallow it. Soon Jesus is coming. Let us be pure in heart to meet our Saviour, that we may stand upon the sea of glass, and be filled with the glory of the Lord.
GEO. W. PARKER.
Chicago, Ill.