Sunday January 23, 2022

See God and be satisfied

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God !” Matthew 5.8

To see God, is it possible ? Leafing through the Scriptures, many verses jump out : “No one has ever seen God...” (John 1.18 and 1 John 4.12) ; “He is the only one who possesses immortality, He who dwells in an inaccessible light, which no man has seen or can see” (1 Timothy 6. 16). Paul speaks of the “invisible God” (Colossians 1:15). Moses asked to see the glory of God and the answer was : “You cannot see My face, for man cannot see Me and live” (Exodus 33:20). Yet Jacob, after wrestling with God, exclaims : “I have seen God face to face and my life has been saved” (Genesis 32:31). As for Isaiah, he exclaims : “Woe to me ! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips... and my eyes have seen the king, the Lord, the ruler of hosts” (Isaiah 6:4). Will we see God, as Jesus promised in His discourse on the beatitudes, or will He forever remain invisible ? The key to the riddle is hidden in the very words of Jesus when Philip asked Him to show him the Father : “He who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say : Show us the Father ? Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me ?” (John 14. 9-10). Yes, we will see God and we will be satisfied, because we will see the face of Christ as He is (1 John 3:2). Notice that in John's vision at Patmos, the glory of God is the origin of the light from heaven and his lamp is the Lamb. Both unified in one, and reigning on one throne and not two (Revelation 22. 1, 3). Listen to John's affirmation : "The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His servants will worship Him, and they will see His face, and His name will be in their foreheads" (v. 3-4). He did not write : their servants will worship them, they will see their faces and their names will be on their foreheads, but “they will see His face”. Seeing Jesus, the announced Christ, was the desire that burned in Moses' heart. And should also be the dearest desire in our hearts !

Source (His Word for Today)