This second beatitude focuses on those who exhibit greater faith by believing without seeing. We are reminded of the word of the Lord to Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed (Jn 20:29).
J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
"There are two kinds of testimony, one which comes from the senses, the eye, the ear, the touch. So far as I am concerned, because I know how uncertain is the eye and the ear and the touch, I have felt that the other testimony, the testimony of the Spirit, was for me the truer one…And that is the testimony…which must come to most of us, the testimony of believing without seeing…And this testimony is the testimony of the Spirit. We should all seek for it. If the Lord wishes to add the testimony of the senses, we should be grateful; but the testimony of the spirit is within the call of all of us. All we need to do to get it is to live for it and seek it; and that testimony when it comes will be in us a burning testimony, a testimony that will be as a fire, if we so live that we keep it." (Improvement Era, Aug. 1949, pp. 495, 539-540)