Moses asked God, “Show me Your glory!”
God said He would
Hide Moses
Pass by Moses
Cover Moses
And show Moses
His “back,”
Adding,
“But you cannot see My Face,
Because no one can see My Face and live.”
John said that The Word became flesh
And came down here and lived among us,
The Only One who came from the Father,
Full of grace and truth,
“And we have seen His glory.”
In other words, That God
Who has That Glorious Face
That none can see and live
Found a way to show His Face
And not kill anyone.
He found a way
For “the fullness of the Godhead
To dwell in bodily form”
And oh, what a body
Was meant by that “bodily”:
A baby body,
A newborn human body,
A baby face.
And not just the one lucky Moses
But all those who gazed at that baby-in-a-manger Face
Saw the glory
That would have killed you until now.
And then that Body grew
And that Face matured
Until the day came when that Face was mutilated
Beyond all recognition.
And He had never looked more glorious
The Face of God
that none could see and live
Died
That all might live and see
The Face of God.
One day
The knowledge of the glory
That Moses wasn’t allowed to see,
The glory of the I AM,
Will cover the world
Ocean deep
“As the waters cover the sea”
He promises,
Drowning every false religion,
Man-made system,
And lie we have believed about glory,
Because a person at the bottom of the ocean
Can’t help but get wet,
And a person standing under
That tsunami of a promise-kept
Can’t help but understand
That
The Face of God
that none could see and live
Died
That all might live and see
The Face of God.
In the meantime,
Come and get a glimpse.
Gaze by faith down into the manger
Where Love bent low
Gaze by grace up at the cross
Where Love was nailed up high.
Come and get the Christmas Present
That Moses was denied:
Look and live.
Because
The Face of God
That YOU could not see and live
Died
That YOU may live and see
The Face of God.
Be First to Comment