Nineteen-year-old John McNeill was working in a railway office the day he received Christ as his Savior. Years later, this much-loved Scottish evangelist and pastor looked back on that life-changing day.

"It was like the lifting of a curtain for me," he said. "There was no great feeling; it was a case of seeing. I took a walk along the platform. I remember that morning saying to myself: 'Has the station been whitewashed?' The very dingy brick wall all covered with smoke and soot from the engines looked whiter. It was not the walls. It was my mind that was brightened as I took my first walk in the light of salvation."

McNeill's description beautifully illustrates one aspect of Jesus' words, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Mt. 5:8). I like the way Eugene Peterson expresses it: "You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world." When we experience God's forgiveness and cleansing, our eyes are opened to see Him in our circumstances in ways we never have before.

If your heart is clouded because you've resisted God, clear it by yielding to Him. With a heart purified by Christ, you will see Him everywhere around you today.  — David C. McCasland