Seeing God

Seeing God

….I shall see God.

Job 19:26

There are things in life we want to see. We may have ambitions to travel and see the pyramids, or the Eiffel Tower, or some natural wonders of the world. We may hope to see important historical locations, or pivotal documents that have influenced civilization. For those of us who are redeemed by free and sovereign grace, there is Someone we long to see. We long to see Christ. When Job was at his lowest point, when all human hope was gone, and the black night of personal disaster had descended upon the very depths of his soul; when it seemed that no light would ever come, and the day would never again dawn for him, he encouraged himself with this: ‘I shall see God.’ Here is the hope of the child of God: We shall see God. More specifically, we shall see Christ. How can we be so bold as to say that? We take the words of Christ Himself, ‘He that has seen Me, has seen the Father.’ Christ is all there is to see of God. He is ‘the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person.’ If we would see God, we must behold Him ‘in the Face of Jesus Christ.’ Job’s Christ is our Christ, and Job’s hope our hope. We look not for things to be right and fair in this scene of time, nor do we look for good from the hand of unrighteous men. Our hope is in Christ, and in Him Alone. There comes the day when we too shall see for ourselves what Job has already seen. Yes, ‘I shall see God.’

Our Gracious and Loving Savior, we rejoice today,
that we see You with the eyes of faith,
and we look forward to the day,
when the faith shall be sight and we shall be like You,
when we see You as You are.

Tomm Tice

Where the Bush is Burning