Those who look to him are radiant and their faces shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him from his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him and delivers them. (vs. 5-7)
I taught high school in a small suburban school when I was twenty-one and just out of college. Many of my students were only a couple of years younger than I, and they would spend time with me when I worked in the library. It is to be around me for long without my talking about the Lord as a matter of course. So it happened that one of the senior boys asked me where I got such shiny eyes. He wanted some. I explained that when a person becomes a Christian, Christ lives in her. If he saw anything radiant in me, it was Christ.
Remember when Moses came down from the mountain with the tablets? The people could not look directly at him because he had been in the presence of God and was far too bright to look at straight on.
When Moses came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. The people were afraid to come near him...and when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was shining. Exodus 34
Being in the presence of the Lord should change us. We should be marked by it. Not that we will necessarily know it any more than Moses did when he came down from the mountain ,unaware of the brilliance engulfing him. Moses received the law from God and the glory of God was evident in the radiance of his face. And the law brought condemnation for sin. Moses wore the veil to conceal the fact that the glory was fading away, according to Paul, in 2 Corinthians 3.
Since we have such hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end....Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now, the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to the next. For this comes from the Lord Who is Spirit.
Christ in us. Shining through us. Making our faces glow with His radiance. More and more we should be looking like our Father. His essence on our lives like perfume that clings to the body and leaves its aroma on those we touch. The little tabernacles we have become as Christ dwells among us through the Spirit should be making more and more room for His Presence daily. A cleaner, brighter sanctuary where the glory of our God radiates, creating an ever more compassionate heart, greater spiritual wisdom, higher thoughts, and undaunted faith.
Never doubt that you have the full army of God on your side because you are His. Christ is in you. The One Who could have called tens of thousands of angels to save Himself from the cross. The One Who showed Himself powerful back in the days of Abraham. The One Who declared, "Before Abraham was, I AM." He commands not only the storms to cease and the waters to part, but created them by the Word of His mouth. Because you are His, you are protected by His angels. They war for you today. Even if it takes them a while to circumvent the enemy as they had to with Daniel, the Lord's army fights for you and me today. Call them forth on your behalf today by the Spirit of the Living God who makes His home in you. In the name of Christ, Who commands their every move, they will deliver you into His plans for your life, out of the hands of the enemy.
The Spirit of God awaits us. Yearns for us to come into His Presence where there is light and life. He is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. The closer we come to Him the more radiant our lives will be. Lit from within, we should light up the world.
I taught high school in a small suburban school when I was twenty-one and just out of college. Many of my students were only a couple of years younger than I, and they would spend time with me when I worked in the library. It is to be around me for long without my talking about the Lord as a matter of course. So it happened that one of the senior boys asked me where I got such shiny eyes. He wanted some. I explained that when a person becomes a Christian, Christ lives in her. If he saw anything radiant in me, it was Christ.
Remember when Moses came down from the mountain with the tablets? The people could not look directly at him because he had been in the presence of God and was far too bright to look at straight on.
When Moses came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. The people were afraid to come near him...and when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was shining. Exodus 34
Being in the presence of the Lord should change us. We should be marked by it. Not that we will necessarily know it any more than Moses did when he came down from the mountain ,unaware of the brilliance engulfing him. Moses received the law from God and the glory of God was evident in the radiance of his face. And the law brought condemnation for sin. Moses wore the veil to conceal the fact that the glory was fading away, according to Paul, in 2 Corinthians 3.
Since we have such hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end....Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now, the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to the next. For this comes from the Lord Who is Spirit.
Christ in us. Shining through us. Making our faces glow with His radiance. More and more we should be looking like our Father. His essence on our lives like perfume that clings to the body and leaves its aroma on those we touch. The little tabernacles we have become as Christ dwells among us through the Spirit should be making more and more room for His Presence daily. A cleaner, brighter sanctuary where the glory of our God radiates, creating an ever more compassionate heart, greater spiritual wisdom, higher thoughts, and undaunted faith.
Never doubt that you have the full army of God on your side because you are His. Christ is in you. The One Who could have called tens of thousands of angels to save Himself from the cross. The One Who showed Himself powerful back in the days of Abraham. The One Who declared, "Before Abraham was, I AM." He commands not only the storms to cease and the waters to part, but created them by the Word of His mouth. Because you are His, you are protected by His angels. They war for you today. Even if it takes them a while to circumvent the enemy as they had to with Daniel, the Lord's army fights for you and me today. Call them forth on your behalf today by the Spirit of the Living God who makes His home in you. In the name of Christ, Who commands their every move, they will deliver you into His plans for your life, out of the hands of the enemy.
The Spirit of God awaits us. Yearns for us to come into His Presence where there is light and life. He is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. The closer we come to Him the more radiant our lives will be. Lit from within, we should light up the world.
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