We are Transformed into Christs' Likeness

Corinthians 3:7-18

I loved looking at my mother’s reflection in the mirror. I sat at the dresser with her watching as she artfully applied makeup and combed her beautiful chestnut brown hair. Her face seemed to shine.  I wanted to be like her. “Full of Beauty and Grace” is the inscription on her grave stone.

Our faces reflect the revelation of God's love and glory to a lonely world. Love is the hallmark of God’s glory emanating from us.  Are our faces unveiled as those transformed to the likeness of Christ, or masked by seasons and circumstances of a dying world?  

Paul wrote in his letter; 2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV) “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Paul references the veil Moses wore as he descended from Mount Sinai after being in the presence of God. He did not want the people to see the radiance of his face slowly fade. In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul lays claim for us to the unfading glory and hope we have in Christ Jesus through the New Covenant of His blood.

Unlike Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” we reflect the face of One only, whose death and resurrection split the veil of the Temple, unveiling our faces as we are transformed to His likeness.

We reflect Him through the fruits of His Spirit; Galatians 5:22 KJV “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness and faithfulness.”

God is in the transforming business. In a sense of the word, we are like reverse transformer toys, whereby we become little Jesuses instead of machines becoming monsters.

"We may be far from perfect, even decadent, but God can change us. "

A.W. Tozer (1897-1963)