FACE-TO-FACE WITH GOD

FACE-TO-FACE WITH GOD




Have you ever
Wanted to see God
FACE-TO-FACE


I thought
I wanted to
But I don't


I would feel ASHAMED
For some
Of the things
I have done in my life
And feel unworthy
INFERIOR
Too low
To see God
FACE-TO-FACE


Yet that
Is exactly
What God tells us


That if we are
UPRIGHT AND JUST
We will see God's face


“The Lord is RIGHTEOUS
He loves just deeds


The upright
Shall see his face” Psalm 11:7


Nevertheless
ASSUMING I am upright and just
I STILL
DON'T want to see his face


I would just feel
SO INFERIOR


I HOPE
I never see his face
UNTIL judgment time
At which time
I will hang my head low
AND NOT look up


Jacob saw his face
After wrestling with God
All night


“So Jacob
Called the place Peniel,”
Saying,
“It is because
I saw God face-to-face


And yet my life
Was spared” Genesis 32:30


Yet Jacob
NEVER Describes The Lord's FACE


The MOST that we know
Is that Moses' face became RADIANTLY ALIVE


“WHEN Moses
Came down from Mount Sinai


With the two tablets
In his hands


He was not aware
That his face was radiant


Because he had spoken
with the Lord” Exodus 34:29


So we KNOW
God's face
Must be radiant
Like the sun


“LET the light of your face
SHINE upon us O Lord” Psalm 4:6


No-GOD'S FACE
Is too bright
For any of us
To actually visibly see


While in this world


I think the most
That we can hope for
IS to be in God's PRESENCE
SPIRITUALLY speaking


And that our friendship
Will GROW with God
HEART-to-HEART


And as God
DRAWS us closer and closer
To him


We can begin
To see
The face of God in us


“FOR GOD, who said


'LET the light
SHINE out of darkness'


Made his light
SHINE in our hearts
To give us
The light of the knowledge
Of the GLORY of God
In the FACE of Christ” 2 Corinthians 4:6


For it was Christ
Who was-who is
And who ALWAYS will be


THE FACE OF GOD
ON EARTH


Robert P. Wallman
June 16^th, 2014


Ps INSPIRED by an article in Living Faith Magazine by Father Kenneth Grabner, C.S.C.


God said to Moses=”You cannot see my face-for NO MAN shall see my face and LIVE”
Exodus 33:20