Only The Pure In Heart Will See God

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."  Matthew 5:8 (NIV)

According to the Apostle Matthew, this is the fifth of the beatitudes from The Sermon on The Mount in which Jesus taught His disciples, and all of those in the surrounding crowd.  He said that those who had a pure heart would be blessed and they would see God.  

Those who have a pure heart are inwardly pure.  They are pure from worldly lusts, pure from unchaste thoughts and desires, pure from fleshly lusts, pure from coveting money or worldly possessions, and pure from the filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit.  This is only possible with a heart that has been purified by God by one's faith in Him.  God must create this within us.  This is what we should pray for, just as King David prayed for it. (Psalms 51:10)  The pure of heart will see God face to face. (Psalms 24:3-5)   Only the pure of heart will see Him and look upon His face because God cannot look upon sinful impurity. (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34)