"We Have His face..Jesus face..and that His face is the face of every man".
During this period of time, I used to go walking almost everyday..and the Saturday before Easter Sunday of 2005 was like most days. Except on this particular day, as I walked, Holy Spirit led me to make a change in my route of travel. Unsure at first..I followed His lead.
The change in course ultimately brought me to where I was walking past a shopping plaza. There was a portable building sitting within the parking lot..I could hear someone talking in such a way that displayed their unhappiness with another person. As I got closer, I could see the one who was the recipient of the comments being made. He/She was lying on the concrete parking lot..totally "hidden" within a blanket. I begin to know that it was a passerby making comments to a homeless person.
I really felt bothered by the situation.
As I began the walk home, Holy Spirit spoke to me and told to come back early the next morning, before I went to church. He gave me an instruction to follow.
Early the next morning, Easter Sunday, I took off on my walk, eager yet unsure, to do as Jesus had asked me to do.
I do at this point, need to share a little side information which really solidifies the unfolding of what God told and showed me...
I was a caregiver for one of my neighbors. In her home, she had a picture of Jesus and every time I would go there, I would look at this picture..It was a portrayal of Jesus as I had never seen before..The man's face, in this specific picture, was so very, very different.
I used to ask Jesus all the time,"Is this what you really look like?" I have seen Jesus in visions, so I had "my" idea of what he looked like. Even so, I can say that I truly was drawn to looking at it..often.
Now, back to the rest of "my walk".
I approached the area where the person had been sleeping the day before, (the person was there again), and I began speaking, saying what Holy Spirit had asked me to. At first, there was not much of a response, but as I simply blessed them and told them that "Jesus Loves you", the blanket was suddenly thrown back.
"I found myself looking into the very same face as the face of the man in the picture in my neighbor's house."
I cannot tell you my amazement. I was blown away..truly impacted....There wasn't anything else said by me..the man told me "thank you".
As I began my walk back home, I continued to just be in awe of our God, our Lord Jesus. By the time I arrived, Holy Spirit had begun to impart to me the following words, and I can tell you that as I went to church service that day...I was changed...I know that there is a lot more change that is needed in me..because Holy Spirit brought this back to me afresh a few days ago. I am confident in sharing this with you that you will be encouraged, if not changed also, by reading it! (HS/dh,03/27/05)
"HIS FACE"
WE HAVE HIS FACE...WE HAVE HIS FACE
IT IS THE FACE OF BROKENNESS
IT IS THE FACE OF SHAME
IT IS THE FACE OF SORROW
IT IS THE FACE OF PAIN
WE HAVE HIS FACE...JESUS, HIS FACE...
THE FACE OF EVERY MAN!
WHEN OUR FATHER LOOKS AT US
IT IS HIS REFLECTION HE SEE'S
BUT THE DARK MASK OF EARTHLY EXISTENCE
HAS HIDDEN OUR TRUE IDENTITY!
JESUS CAME TO GIVE US LIFE
SET US FREE FROM ALL OUR SIN
HE ALSO CAME, THE TRUTH TO REVEAL...
"WE ARE CALLED TO A HIGHER-HEAVENLY PLACE,
BECOME A SON OF GOD, JUST LIKE HIM!"
FROM GLORY TO GLORY, HE TAKE'S THE SHAME..
FROM GLORY TO GLORY, HE TAKE'S THE PAIN...
THE BROKENNESS GOES, THE SORROW FLEE'S....
AND THEN, BEHOLDING AS IN A MIRROR
WE DIMLY BEGIN TO SEE!
"MADE IN HIS IMAGE...CREATED BY HIS LOVE
UNFOLDING REVELATION..
ONE WITH HIM, OUR JESUS!
SPIRIT TO SPIRIT...
ONE WITH HIM, OUR GOD!"
God sent His only beloved Son to earth, became flesh and dwelt among man..taking on all the suffering/difficulties that man endures..so that we might come to know the great Love of our Heavenly Father, our Creator, and to let us know whose we are and that we are made in His image..That He is our destiny!
He wants us all to take a "closer" look at each other...even though there are lots of differences in the way our "face" may appear, God see's us all the same.."made in the image of His Son.
"For God so loved the world..so must we!"
He wants us all to take a "closer" look at each other...even though there are lots of differences in the way our "face" may appear, God see's us all the same.."made in the image of His Son.
"For God so loved the world..so must we!"
There hasn't been an Easter, since God showed me this truth so clearly, that I have not remembered this encounter. But, as I said earlier, I needed to be reminded..and I need to live more fully in it's truth! May we all be strengthened by it.
love and blessings to all of you..
In Jesus Name,
Drema
2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (nkjv)
"Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."
"Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."
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