SEEING THE FACE OF GOD

September 18, 2024

There will no longer be any curse and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him. They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. (Revelation 22:3-4)

Through the years, it has helped me to consciously enter the Throne Room of heaven when I come to prayer—to mentally and genuinely come, as Jesus told us to do in Matthew 6:6.

But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

This is not some weird, mystical visualization. It is simply meditating on what Jesus told us to do and the multiple pictures of the throne room, the throne, and “One seated on it” that John gives us in the Revelation.

I envision a door that enters God’s throne room. I walk through the door and close it behind me, shutting out everything and everyone of this world. I turn to face the Father to commune with Him.

Invariably now, I cannot turn to Him without worship. Without adoring Him. How could we do less? “Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name!” (Matthew 6:10)

But there is one thing I can never seem to see nor imagine: His face.

BUT …

There’s coming a day … a day when we are in the new heaven and earth, when all evil is banished, and everything around us is perfectly pure, right, and holy. In that place, “His bond-servants will serve Him, and they will see His face” (Revelation 22:3-4).

I cannot imagine the unbounded joy and deep fulfillment of seeing God's face. It would seem that one look there will explain everything. We will see who He is and understand the height, depth, width, and depth of His love. Satan will be forever banished and can no longer lie to us about our Father’s nature. The past world can cloud and hide our view. Our past sinfulness no longer plagues, and humanity hinders us. We will “know fully as we have been fully known.”

And one look into His eyes will tell us all.

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