KykNET Lent Guide 2023Sample

Week 5: Purity

Day 6: We Can See God

“You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.” Matt 5:8 (MSG)

At one time, I was standing in front of a wonderful nature scene with a couple of friends. We admired it together. One of my friends said that she would love to bring her easel and paint so that she could paint the scene. Another friend began daydreaming of development possibilities. One wanted to buy the place to sell it again later. Yet another friend was enamored by the cattle and wanted to start farming there. I stood there as a preacher and thought that this would make a wonderful illustration, and wondered what we really had as we stood there: is it a painting? Is it a development possibility? A property? Or a preaching opportunity? It all depends on how you look at it. And I realized that each one of us was looking at it through the lenses of who we are. One of us was an artist, the other a developer, the other a property agent, the other a farmer, and me a preacher.

Paul says that everything is pure to those who are pure (Titus 1:15). We see as we are. We don’t usually see things as they are, and that is why you will see God if you are pure of heart. You begin to find God in everything you see.

Exercise:

Reflection prayer helps to clean our lenses. You are now invited to note the good, beautiful, and noble things in your life and to thank God for them.

Repetition Prayer:

Create in me a pure heart, oh God.