You Can't Be Like What You Can't See

I know that it's been a while since I've posted anything on here, but I was meditating on something that I thought was pretty cool.

There are certain milestones in the Christian journey that help you to understand why things are the way they are, and help to increase your knowledge and love for the God that we commune with. I recently had one of those milestones, and it has helped me to test my own walk with God, and hopefully, to encourage people to test theirs. It came from meditating on 1 John 3:2,3 - "Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure." Let's see if I can sum up what I was thinking in a few paragraphs.
What is the big deal with sight? Why does John link purifying with seeing? I don't care who you are, you desire something. That something is usually something that you want to be good at, like music, sports, disc golf, writing, reading, praying etc. Take your pick. Everyone wants to identify with, and be good at something. I used to play the drums religiously (believe it or not). I enjoyed music and I used to go watch alot of bands play. Why did I do that? Was it because I enjoyed the music? Yes there was that, but the reason I went was to watch the people who were really good at playing music so that I could see what they did to be as good as they were, and to learn what they were doing in hopes to become better! Well John tells us that we are children of God but that we are not fully pure, because we don't yet fully see. Well we do partially see right? Yes. Well when did we begin to see? Jesus tells us that we must be born again to see the kingdom of heaven, and unless we are, we won't (John 3:3). Here again we see the issue of sight. You can't be good at what you don't see. Jesus said, when called "good teacher", that there is no one good but the Father, acknowledging his goodness on the same level as the Father. If the Father and Jesus are ultimately the highest good, what do we have to look at to be good Christians? Jesus! The author and perfector of our faith. You can't be like what you can't see. This is why John tells us that those who see Jesus this side of heaven with the eyes of the born again heart, purify themselves. Because the born again believer can see the best thing in the all creation, Jesus! As a born again believer, you have a renewed mind and a clean heart (Ezekiel 36:26,27; Romans 12:2), and like Paul, we have the ability to serve God with our renewed minds and hearts, but when it comes to actions, or the flesh, we serve the law of sin, we deteriorate, even if we are doing good things. This is because in the heart and mind we are made new (Colossians 3:10), but the flesh is not yet what it will be; glorified. (See Romans 8)
In my journey with God I can take this verse and say to myself, or to anyone for that matter, (1) are you born again? If not then you're not able to see the kingdom. And if so then (2) what are you looking at? If you are born again, the best thing you can do for yourself is to gaze into the face of Jesus, see how good he is, and thus purify yourself, because he is pure. Hope this makes sense to you because I think it's awesome and humbling.