Blessed

The heart. It is a final frontier for most of the world. It tends to be a place we talk about and speculate over how to fix it and work on it. But we rarely go there. Scripture tells us we should guard it above all else, for it is the wellspring of life. Our mouths speak with what overflows from the heart. The heart is the very center of our being. It makes us who and what we are. And every day our heart is bombarded with life. From the very day we were conceived and our lives were being formed, experiences have shaped who we'd be. Genetically and emotionally and physically our hearts were formed. And this continues, though many choose to guard what has already happened to their heart and leavie it as it is. Many have hearts that resemble salvage yard sweethearts, rusted and beat up with parts missing here and there. The color is gone and that's just the way it is. Others have fewer dents and dings, but still have a hardened heart in some respects.
The problem with this is that we not only experience the world from our hearts, but we interact with and see the world from them. This means that the shape our heart is in affects our reaction to what the world dishes out. A hardened heart will be cold and callous in response. A weakened heart will give up. The view is always marred from a human heart. What is truly going on is invisible or at the least blurry. It is like trying to look out a windshield that has been pelted with rocks. You can see a little, but visibility is quite limited.
A clean heart would be ideal. A heart that has been renovated and refurbished; renewed. Another word is redeemed. Jesus said that one with a pure heart is blessed because they will see God. God is truth. Unmarred. Unblurred. Crystal clear. None of us can see him perfectly in our lives for our hearts have been under attack for years. Even those who have learned to guard them still have a ways to go to get them refinished.
Here is the irony. In order to see God, you must trust him. No amount of religious exercise and healthy diet will fix our hearts. Do you want to see God? Invite him in and let him go to work. He pulls out the dents. He seals the cracks. He's giving you new life and a new heart.
Many will try to get along with such low visibility and crash along the way, only adding to the pain and the damage in the heart. All it takes is spending time forming a relationship with Jesus. Talk with him. Listen to him. Hear him. Hang out with him. Let him get to know you and get to know him. Before you know it, you start to see him in the world around you. Then you begin to know you're blessed.