Living without the veil

For all who are led by the Spirit of God

Are children of God. Romans 8:14

 

Read 2 Corinthians 3:12—18

I am made for freedom. I am called to it. I am set free by Christ. It is the freedom of being a child of God, not a slave who finds life with God drudgery,[1] but a child, a son, a daughter, who finds myself rather gloriously admitted to my Father’s house. I belong. I am beloved. The Spirit who came upon Jesus and declared him God’s Son, the beloved,[2] has been given to me so that I can say, by faith in Jesus and out of my relationship with Jesus, “Father, dear Father.” This is wonderfully enriching, not to say liberating. Now my eyes are opened to see the things God speaks of in my Bible, cover to cover, as a kind of heritage to be explored. It’s a life to grow into. It’s my community, my locale, my second language. I can kind of see myself in it all, and because I know that Jesus has taken me into himself (I have to pinch myself to say this) I see something pretty glorious that I share.

 

Father, you made me in your image. You made me to reflect your glory. I see that in my Bible. I see the image and the glory spoiled in me, but I see the image and the glory fully there in Jesus, bursting forth. It has taken the Holy Spirit’s movement to awaken me to this, to convince me that all that Jesus has done and won is for me. It’s real. The veil has been removed. I see it. I’m not on the outside looking in. I now find myself in a new way, part of the story, part of what you have always been doing. Moses, Abraham, Mary, Peter, are all among my people too, simply because they are people of God’s promise, and so am I. We are all made for your glory. I remember it best when I forget myself. I see it most clearly when I remember what Jesus has done for me.

 

 

[1]Romans 8:15

[2] Mark 1:11