As we have looked at the excellencies of Christ that draw us to His magnificent beauty, we have looked at the beauty of His creation (the heaven, earth and all it’s inhabitants), His righteousness, His justice, His power, His love, His grace, His joy and His wisdom. We have seen Him glorious and worthy of our praise while at the cross He who knew no sin took upon Himself the sin of the world so that He might pay the penalty for an undeserving self-exalting, self-centered bunch such as we are. I have presented Him as the only one who can fully satisfy our desire and search for exhilarating, awe inspiring beauty which leads to joy, hope, and love overflowing. His love so overwhelming, His grace so amazing, and His sacrifice for me so compelling that He has drawn me out to desire and gaze upon His face. For me, the more I know of Him; the more I recognize that it is a mystery that He could have ever chosen me. He sought after me, He has pursued me, He wooed me and He has unveiled His glory that I might see His beauty as that which I desired most, my most precious treasure.
2 Corinthians 4: (AMP)6 For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah).
When I first accepted Christ, I knew only glimpses of that Glory. I knew that I was a sinner in need of a Savior and that Christ had died to pay the price for my sin and the blood of Christ was the only way to cover my sin that I might enter into a relationship with God. I saw a glimpse of His love and I wanted to have Him in my heart. Then, as I asked Him to enter into my heart, He did. Then with such patience, such tenderness, such love, and such grace He began the work of transforming me into someone who one day will be able to gaze upon the fullness of His beauty and His Glory. His desire is to fill my heart with joy, love and glory. Step by step, inch by inch, and glory by glory He is ever about revealing more of Himself to me that I might ever seek more of Him, savor the exquisiteness of His presence, trust Him more and fall ever deeper in love with Him. The Holy Spirit working within me to comfort and guide me along this journey. One day when I have completed the transformation and my work on earth is done, I will be standing before Him. Only then will I fully appreciate and understand this journey that led me to His presence. I will only then realize that every tear, every sorrow, every trial, every joy, every moment of faith, and every step of this journey had been orchestrated by a Loving, Almighty God to transform my heart to be able to see His Glory. The veil was torn that I might see the glimpses of that and one day see the magnitude of God.
2 Corinthians 3: 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
So I have five questions for you:
1. Do you see Christ as so beautiful and so worthy of your praise, that even if He gave you nothing in return, you would praise Him?
2. Have you ever come to that moment in which you have asked Him into your heart?
3. Do you seek and savor Him with all your heart, mind and soul?
4. Is Christ your greatest treasure?
5. Have you ever fallen deeply, madly in love with Christ– Desiring to always be in His presence and to learn more of His magnificent beauty and Glory?
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