Can you see God?

Yesterday, talking with a friend about her many travels in the US and in Europe, I commented that she mist see so much beauty. Her answer was lovely.

She said, “Before I look for beauty around me, I must say, first I see God.” And she smiled with an understanding of what that means. It has made me ask, what does it mean to see God. How do I see God? Because when that is the first thing we see in our day,- what a glorious day it will then be.

And the first thought is that one who sees God sees through completely pure sight. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” The pure in heart see Spirit through spiritual understanding. His thoughts are pure. His views unobstructed by material sense, limitation, worry, opinion, or fear. His love for God and his desire to “see God” is the most important focus, not just of his day, but of his life.

We will never see God by viewing matter or material sense, or by being more interested in material analysis of world conditions than we are in the truth of Life and Love.

We will never see God by focusing on matter and being afraid of its so-called intelligence. For good or bad, matter is always, and forever will be, lifeless, mindless. No matter how tempting it is to check our technology, this will never allow us to love God more, or more deeply understand the profoundly beautiful nature of the universe, created as it is by the all-loving omnipotent Principle, Love, which holds all perfectly, divinely, within its own creation. And knows each detail as one with order and beauty, with Life in and of Spirit.

Mrs. Eddy, like St John, saw the universe in its perfect depict because she saw only God. The revelation of divine Science came to her because of her deep love for, and dedication to, seeing God, and knowing God to be All, here and now, seen purely through true spiritual vision.

She writes of this in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “This kingdom of God “is within you,” — is within reach of man’s consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his understanding of God.” P. 575.

As we see God, we see all beauty and life and love as sourced in, and forever one with, God, divine Love, divine Principle. Through the deep study of God as we learn in Christian Science, we are given the means to life lived with God’s all-good government present and available to men, to man, to you and I, today right here, each day, right now. The choice is ours as to what and how we choose to see, Spirit or matter, the real or the unreal. The Bible is clear: “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15). One view is real and heals, the other isn’t and doesn’t.

Do you see God? Of course you do. “The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God!” P.323.

Remember, too, that God, so pure, sees only His perfect pure, beautiful creation, you!