![]() My Target Today: Today I will let one person see the face of Jesus in me. ![]() Jesus guarantees he will take care of the rest of the job, no matter how long it takes. You don’t have to worry about getting your new face. That means it is an action that is completed in the past but has continuing consequences into the present (the perfect tense) and it is not something that we do, it is done to us (the passive mood). This word is in the perfect passive tense. All of the shells must be removed to reveal the face of God.īut there is another important part of this word that is not in the meaning. It is a combination word meaning, “to take back a covering or shell.” It is the word for the process of becoming like Christ. In this verse, Paul uses the Greek word anakalupto. But soon we find that his old masks, the Rabbinic face, his Jewish face, his zealot face, were being lifted away to reveal the face of his destiny. Paul’s first appointment left him blind and confused. Paul knew all about this de-constructive surgery. Even though the process is a lifetime of work, once he starts the job, he never stops until it is complete. Jesus has to peel back layer after layer of false faces until he is able to uncover the image that God intended. We all, with unveiled faces, are reflecting the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory this is from the Lord who is the Spirit. But it is a slow and sometimes difficult process. ![]() It starts the first day of our first appointment with him. This radical de-construction takes a long time. Why? Because he is the only one who remembers what we were supposed to look like from the beginning. The only surgeon capable of such a task is Jesus. It takes a very skilled surgeon to remove them. After years of refinement, many of these masks become completely attached. We have one outward look at work, another at home, another at church, another with friends. Before we schedule an appointment with Him, we spend our lives fitting masks to our faces. Unveiled – Jesus does reverse plastic surgery. ![]() We behold Christ, as in the glass of his word and as the reflection from a mirror causes the face to shine, the faces of Christians shine also.“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image” 2 Corinthians 3:18 We should not rest contented without knowing the transforming power of the gospel, by the working of the Spirit, bringing us to seek to be like the temper and tendency of the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and into union with Him. Christians should prize and improve these privileges. They have light, and with open face they behold the glory of the Lord. The condition of those who enjoy and believe the gospel is happy, for the heart is set at liberty to run the ways of God's commandments. When any person is converted to God, then the veil of ignorance is taken away. This veil is taken away by the doctrines of the Bible about Christ. Those who lived under the law, had a veil upon their hearts. And the whole doctrine of Christ crucified, is made as plain as human language can make it. But the great precepts of the gospel, believe, love, obey, are truths stated as clearly as possible. The Old Testament believers had only cloudy and passing glimpses of that glorious Saviour, and unbelievers looked no further than to the outward institution. It is the duty of the ministers of the gospel to use great plainness, or clearness, of speech. Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Corinthians 3:18 Commentary on 2 Corinthians 3:12-18
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