"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 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."
-Paul's 2nd letter to the Corinthians
What does it mean to contemplate the Lord's glory with unveiled faces?
It is to see Christ in all.
It is seeing Christ when reading Moses.
It is seeing Christ in world events.
It is seeing Christ in our worship services.
It is seeing Christ when we would rather not see him at all.
It is seeing Christ in our neighbor.
It is seeing Christ in our enemies.
It is a straining to see Christ at all times, though he is always near.
That, to me, is the beginning of transformation. And what else can the days following Easter be about, than being transformed into the image of Christ, who is the very image of God. Maybe I'll even start putting all of that into practice some day. That's my hope.
Peace,
Matt
Currently Reading: The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran, The Colossus by Sylvia Plath, and Dante's famous Inferno. I took more than a week off from reading, and am excited to get back into it again. Not quite sure how I ended up reading all this poetry at once, though...
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i heard if you blog about stuff you don't actually have to do it. When i read this i just kept thinking about how God's name was unspeakable, how people just read adonai and looked away when they saw it. There is something sacred about that which we have lost, and yet we haven't truly seen Him in the profane either. What is Christianity if it doesn't change the world for the better, and not just better for us. another question would be how do we truly see Christ in us becuase until we can live out of our true identity we can't see Christ in all those other things, i think. there is this cool verse that recently i have fallen in love with.
Galations 6:15 It doesn't make any difference now whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people (and if the world has been changed).
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