![]() ![]() We may seek the solution to our problem, we may have questions that are burning and need an answer, and we may have a lot of puzzling situations that bother us, but as long as we are in the Lord’s presence, everything is taken care of. We do this by coming to the Lord in His word daily and also by coming to the meetings of the church when we come into the sanctuary (our mingled spirit and the meetings of the church), the Lord has a way to shine on us and in us, and He infuses us with Himself. When we spend time with the Lord, when we behold the Lord in our spirit and in the meetings of the church, He shines on us, He exposes anything that doesn’t match Him, and we are being inwardly transformed into His image until outwardly we are conformed to Him.Įvery day we want to be infused with God so that we can actually glow with God and shine forth God into others. The highest profession on earth is not to be a CEO or COO with lots of good ideas and world-changing decisions the highest profession on earth is for a man to behold God by spending time with God to be infused with God so that he can glow with God. ![]() May this be our aspiration, to dwell in the house of God and behold the beauty of God to be infused with God! Our heart is the key: we need to turn our heart to the Lord and deal with anything that comes between us and Him, so that we may behold Him face to face and be transformed into His image. This glorious, terrifying responsibility calls from me a life that, like a mirror, I keep “polished” by a constant “turning to the Lord” (16) and letting his glory be seen in me.When we turn our heart to the Lord and behold Him with an unveiled face, we see God and are transformed by God into the same image as Christ from glory to glory for the purpose of God. Fellowship is the crucible in which the Spirit purifies and transforms us. This glorious character remains supremely his, but it is “mirrored” in my brother or sister in Christ, however imperfectly and the life through which they encounter Christ might well be mine, too. An explanation I favor is that it is through our fellow Christians that we further see the reflection of Christ’s glory. In so doing we are transformed more and more into Christ’s likeness (18). Where do we see this “glory”? The glory of God is the visible sign of his presence, reflecting his character, and Paul’s extraordinary assertion is that this glory, shining in the face of Christ, is now also reflected in us as we look to him. The old covenant, chiseled on stone tablets, came with fire and glory on Sinai, as Moses’ shining face bore testimony but the new covenant, which sets us permanently right with God, also comes with its own glory (9,10). In common with the writer of Hebrews, Paul argues that the new covenant is far superior to the old. Scripture taken from the THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. ![]() We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts! Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. ![]()
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