Seeing God
Posted by tom | Nov 7, 2007Recently, I was part of a faculty group which discussed seeing God. Based upon John 12 and 15, one member shared the idea of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, being the window through which one sees what God is like.
The other morning a friend shared thoughts regarding St. Francis' joy in dying poor. Later in the day, I came across a post-it note with some thoughts written at some point over the course of the past several months:
It is good you are only a shadow of what you have been [by human effort and means]. You rely on Me [and My Reality, i.e., God] and loose your various plans/projects based in alternative realities [toward ends other than My own].
As I read this insight, I responded with joy that day-by-day, by the filling of the Spirit I'm being shaped into the image of God as intended by the Father to reflect Christ-likeness in His creation to His glory at this time and place in the family, local congregation, neighborhood, school district, and campuses to which I've been called to be a part. May His work in my life be window for others to see God. But even more, I yearn to see God not just as Moses being passed by in the cleft of the Rock or the disciples in fear on the Mount of Transfiguration, when I dance on the streets of glory in the new heaven and the new earth.
