May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’n’s Sun! High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art. Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise. Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word.
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Thou my best thought, by day or by night. Naught be all else to me save that Thou art: We are “ transformed into the same image from glory to glory.” ( 2 Corinthians 3:18). In fact, the vision of the glory of God has such a transforming power on us, that we who gaze are also changed. Lest we think that this is an experience for the super-spiritual only, we must catch the words, “ but we all.” It isn’t just the Pauls of the world who get to take it all in. He looked to the glory which can’t be seen with the senses. What did Paul “see”? What was it that captivated his senses? What was it that enthralled and filled his soul with joy unspeakable? His vision was “ the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” ( 2 Corinthians 4:6). His reality included the realm of the unseen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” ( 2 Corinthians 4:18). “ While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. Yet this vision is so real to the apostle that he referred to the unseen sights as things. In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul wrote about a certain kind of vision-not that of the paranormal or the extra-Biblical but a vision which could not been seen with physical eyes. Most of us would relegate these kinds of things to the paranormal rather than to everyday experience. When we hear the word vision, we might sometimes think of an apparition, a specter, a dream, or something other-worldly. 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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