Bobby, faces reflect; reflect on faces, and behold His beauty! Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple. The Hebrew word for face is panim, (the Hebrew letters, peh-nun-yud-mem), literally faces, a plural word. Normally, when we think about God, we focus only upon one of His faces” at a time. God is love – or He is holy-- or He is just--- or Hes a God of wrath. Yet, of course, ALL these faces are His at once; and so the word panim accurately reflects the truth of Gods multifaceted being. As we get to know Him better we begin to appreciate the complexity of His nature and the fact that our focus on one face is a very limited view, since theres so much more going on in His amazing Personality. Now the same four Hebrew letters which form the word face, (peh-nun-yud-mem), also form the Hebrew word for inside or interior. * This would seem to contradict the first meaning, face, since face is the external part of a person or thing, not the inside. Yet here, as with many Hebrew words and concepts lies a deep truth, a paradox which expresses two sides of reality. The face is intimately connected with the interior, and may accurately reveal the true interior of someone. Theres even a science (or perhaps you might call it an art) of reading peoples true attitudes and character by looking carefully at their facial expressions. So while we dont judge a book by its cover, we may begin to know a person better by carefully looking at her face...because it is true that the face often says something real about the inside of a person. Yeshua (Jesus) said, The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. Inside and out, were connected. And this is something God wants us to do with Him; to meditate, or gaze upon His panim, His faces, and so to receive from His interior depths. Someday, we will see Him face to face, and begin to know Him in ways which are unimaginable. Yet it is possible, by His Spirit within us, to begin now. Bobby, God desires us to look deeper into who He is, even as we only look or meditate on one of His faces. King David expressed his own unique desire in these words: One thing I have asked from YHVH, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of YHVH all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the YHVH and to meditate in His temple. Gods faces and His interior are one continuous eternal wonder. Let us spend time simply beholding Him!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:14:54 +0000
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