Behold Your God!

"Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him" (Exodus 34:29).

“They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed” (Psalm 34:5). 

Dear Praying Friends: 

David penned this psalm after God had delivered him from great danger (see 1 Samuel 21:10-15), but, like all the psalms, it refers also to Christ in several ways, directly and indirectly (see, for example, verse 20).  

Verse 5 says that if we look to God, our faces will shine, as with Moses when he had been with God (Exodus 34:29-35). The Apostle John wrote, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).  

Paul referred to Moses’ experience and applied it to us: “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18). 

So, what do we do when beset with troubles of all sorts? Let us heed the words of Isaiah to the exiled people of Israel whom God had promised to deliver: “Behold [look at, fix your gaze upon] your God!” As we look to Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith, revealed to us in the Scriptures, we will have the courage and strength to “run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1-2). 

Yours together as keep our eyes on Jesus, 
Wright