Stop and Ponder: We Will See God.

I don’t know if it’s appropriate to have a favorite Beatitude—one of the wisdom blessings offered by Jesus at the beginning of his Sermon on the Mount—but if I had to pick one, it would be the sixth: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matt. 5:8).I linger over this one, in part because “purity of heart” encompasses several aspects of the Christian life. There’s the pursuit of inner purity and righteousness as opposed to lust and deceit. There’s the purity of vision that inter