Instead, we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God by the public announcement of the truth. We don’t use deception, and we don’t tamper with God’s word. 2 Instead, we reject secrecy and shameful actions. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.Ĥ This is why we don’t get discouraged, given that we received this ministry in the same way that we received God’s mercy. We are being transformed into that same image from one degree of glory to the next degree of glory. 18 All of us are looking with unveiled faces at the glory of the Lord as if we were looking in a mirror. 17 The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord’s Spirit is, there is freedom. 16 But whenever someone turns back to the Lord, the veil is removed. 15 Even today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts. The veil is not removed because it is taken away by Christ. Right up to the present day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. 13 We aren’t like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites couldn’t watch the end of what was fading away. I wonder why I did not underline that phrase it is. While reading this scripture in my Bible, I noticed that at some other time I had underlined itexcept for the part between the commas. A four-lesson study of 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. With Unveiled Faces: Experience Intimacy with God Through Spiritual Disciplines - Kindle edition by Keith Drury. Amen.12 So, since we have such a hope, we act with great confidence. 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory. With an “unveiled face,” I can be a beautiful witness of your love to all I meet. nurture your relationship with god as you experience each of these personal spiritual disciplines: prayer, silence, study, fasting, obedience, simplicity, giving, sacrifice, serving, meditation, journaling, self-denial, and solitude. PRAYER: Dear Lord, how glorious it is to know that you are transforming me from a creature of this world into a child of the kingdom. Stop trying to look, in your outward appearance, like everyone else. Don’t be concerned so much with what the world thinks about you. They need people like you.ĭon’t just look like everyone around you. They need people that put their anger to death, that are honest, that turn their cheeks when slapped, that desire peace, that love their enemies, that overcome evil with good, who pray, who seek God’s face, who desire him, who love what is good, who hate what is evil. They do not need more followers to enable their inner death. People need someone like you to model what it means to be truly alive. They need you to, instead, model for them what it means to be a person filled with peace, life, and goodness. Moses had to put on a veil to hide the glory of God’s presence. Too glorious, it turns out, for the people to look upon. In the Old Testament, when Moses met with God his face became glorious. One of the joys of the Christian life is that we have unveiled faces. Sometimes we find ourselves mimicking and copying people who are empty, lost, and wanting. Weymouth translates, But all of us as with unveiled faces we mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, even as. Full knowledge needs the veil to be removed. “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.” -2 Corinthians 3:18
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