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
As I read this verse last night my heart filled with a desire to spend more time with God. Oh, to have the light of the glory of God reflected in my countenance! Moses had just returned from spending 40 days and nights in fasting and communion with God. Because of this we read that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.
O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
Beholding and spending time with God produces a radiant countenance that is a reflection of the Lord’s glory. Moses’ face shone with a radiant glory that was diminishing. A Christian’s countenance, however, is one of an ever-increasing radiant glory because of God’s abiding presence in our hearts. A believer’s glory is eternal.
Beloved…Immerse yourself in the word of God. We are changed by looking at Jesus…by spending time with Him in prayer, in worship and in study. Look full into His wonderful face and as you do be transformed into the same image from glory to glory. It is in the looking at Him that you will become like Him.
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
They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed.—Psalm 34:5
Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.—Psalm 1:1-3
Who is like a wise man?
And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
A man's wisdom makes his face shine,
And the sternness of his face is changed.—Ecclesiastes 8:1
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.—Ephesians 3:14-21
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.—2 Corinthians 4:6
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.—John 1:4-5
Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the LORD will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.—Psalm 60:1-3
