CLEAR - another word meaning for transparent; Free from guile, candid, open and frank. Let us look at transparent from end to beginning.

REVELATION 22:1 "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."

This scripture shows transparency. The ultimate place to be, our journeys end.

How we began is a different story. The flesh did start in the garden, but the real force was a lie. The flesh received (conceived) a lie and acted on it and birthed the lie nature in flesh. When Jesus said to the Pharisees, You are of your father the devil. He is a lair and the father of lies and all that is false. A love of the lie was birthed, in the beginning in the flesh.

James 1:15 "When the evil desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin and when it is matured brings forth death."

The same works for the birth in the spirit. James 1:18 And it was of His own (free) will that He gave us birth (as sons) by (His) WORD OF TRUTH, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures – (a sample) of what He created to be consecrated to Himself.

You receive the truth, act on the truth and in God's time bring forth a new life, in the Spirit of Truth… A love of the Truth. You cannot even start without this birthing process of truth. It is a new beginning, new life, Life of Jesus is born anew in us. We are all programmed one way or the other, and we all need to be born again.

Austin Sparks said:

The river of the water of life, clear as a crystal will not flow through the channel of the flesh. What you minister must be born of the Spirit of God in your spirit.

As we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, we move toward the transparency that is our inheritance.

I Corinthians 13:12 For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim view reflection or reality--Now I know in part (Imperfectly); but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood by God." It is step by step, line on line, precept on precept truth is built in us.

Many that are legalistic will say after you are born again you can't sin. John 3:9 "No one born of God habitually practices sin, for God's nature abides in him. His principle of life, the divine sperm remains permanently within him and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God." That scripture used to scare me because I knew I had not arrived.

The Lord taught me that the Truth and Life birthed in me will not sin. I believe we receive new birth of the truth over again, as lies are replaced by truth as we stand for truth and right in our circumstances.

It is like a pregnancy, the seed of truth we carry causes limitations on our flesh till God's truth is birthed and brings forth a new way of thinking doing and acting. The lie has no power in that place. I have had so many lessons in this truth that I KNOW it is so. I now know that it is bringing us to the place of Revelation 22:1 Clear as Crystal.

Two scriptures - Ps. 32:2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity (because of verse 1) and in whose spirit is no deceit.

Ps. 51:6, also verse 10, Behold, you desire truth in the inner being: make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost being. ( the inside and outside are the same).

Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right persevering and steadfast spirit within me.

And Jesus said John 7:38 He who believes in Me--who cleaves to and trusts and relies on me--as the scripture has said, Out of his inner most being springs and rivers of living water shall flow (continuously). Then I shall know clearly as I was known.

The definition again of transparent.

Capable of transmitting (JESUS) light so that objects or images (myself and my flesh nature) can be as if there were no intervening material. The mirror will reveal Jesus. We will know when He comes and is manifested, we shall be like Him for we (I John 3:2) shall see Him just He really is.

2 Timothy 1:12 "And this is why I am suffering as I do--I know and perceive, have knowledge and am acquainted with Him Whom I have believed and I am persuaded that He is able to guard and keep that which has been entrusted to me and which I have committed (to Him) until that day."

Paul spoke of suffering because of his belief in the Lord.

Austin Sparks said, Suffering will result in increased spiritual capacity. What you minister must be born of the spirit of God (His Truth) in your spirit.

O Blessed Lamb of God, make of me the transparent vessel you created and birthed your Truth in.