Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. We stood, the day we left home to begin life for ourselves, amid all the "creatures" of God, as stands the druggist's clerk on the first morning of his apprenticing, not knowing which is sweet, or sour, or would kill, or would make alive; aye, and with a perverted impulse for the wrong use of all. Behold that tree which nods at the church window. Sometimes there is too much moisture in the air; sometimes too much heat; poisons are at its root, its leaf, its stock. Yet so "pure" is the tree, so does it follow just God's law, that it chooses and uses, not abuses, but fructifies by all. So amid all nature will be the really pure in heart; not that pure heart is all-wise, but it is so in harmony with God's law, so far as it is instructed, that it uses all things according to the Creator's intention. How? For beauty, purity, peace, and joy. (E. J. Haynes.) Parallel Verses KJV: Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. |
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