The face of Christ
“To contemplate the Face of Christ…is the ‘program’ which I have set before the Church at the dawn of the third millennium.” _John Paul II
Timing is everything.
When I read John Paul’s quote today I wondered, is this right?
Earlier I had read a lengthy passage in Deuteronomy 4 instructing Israel to not make images of God.
Would not contemplating the face of Christ be a sort of mental image? Would not that be idolatry?
Then I remembered…
No man made Christ, He was begotten by God… “the express image of His person…” (Hebrews 1:3)
The ONE THING for today: Open my eyes Lord! Help me to see YOU and be blinded to all that would compete for my loyalty and love.
Photo by Motoki Tonn on Unsplash
1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 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 4:1-6
