This is the third and final part of my paper about my meditations on the beauty of God.
The promise of salvation is that one day we will be able to
behold the beauty of God face to face.
Many in Scripture desired to see God face to face, but they could not
bear to look because the brightness of His beauty and glory overwhelmed
them. In Exodus 33, Moses asked the Lord
to show him His glory, but God said in verse 20, “You cannot see My face, for
no man can see Me and live”. God did
reveal His glory to Moses but only his backside not his face. Paul likewise encounter the living Christ in
all his beauty and glory on the road to Damascus and was struck blind because
of the brightness of His radiance.
The joy of
heaven is that for the first time we will get to see God as He truly is. We will get to fully experience His beauty
and bask in the warmth of His glory.
Revelation 21:3 says, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and
He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be
among them”. What is probably my favorite
promise in all of Scripture in found in Revelation 22:3-5. It says the following regarding the New
Heavens and the New Earth:
“There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb
will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face,
and His name will be on their foreheads.
And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of
the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will
illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.”
In heaven, the beauty of God will
eternally be on display. For the first
time, we will experience completely unhindered worship of God. We will be in awe of His beauty from the
first moment, and that awe will never cease but will endure forever!
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*Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture was taken from the NEW
AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972,
1973, 1975, 1977, 1995, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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