How clear is your vision of God? At different points in life, we’ve tried to understand him through nature, our experiences, or our relationships.

But how can we know if our vision of God is clear? This Sunday, we’re continuing through the Beatitudes and Jesus’ words:

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

—Matthew 5:8

Jesus says that seeing God has everything to do with the state of our hearts. But how do we understand that alongside what the Jeremiah says, that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (17:9) If our hearts are deceitful, how can we know our vision of God isn’t clouded?