Verse
Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are — face to face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.
Thought
No passage better describes the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives than this one. We’ve met it before in our SpiritFire devotional thoughts, but it is worth hearing from different translations. The work of the Holy Spirit is so vital in the New Covenant people of God, as we have seen in previous devotionals. God is a personal presence, the living Holy Spirit, alive in us to transfigure us into the character and compassion of Jesus. This is the Spirit’s goal — that Jesus would come to live in us in our daily lives as we are transformed to be more and more like him each day.
Prayer
Almighty God, do your work in me to make me more like Jesus today than yesterday, and even more like him every tomorrow until that day he brings me home to you. I thank you for the Holy Spirit, who is your living presence in me, that is given me by your grace to accomplish this work in me. In Jesus’ name I thank you! Amen.
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