When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. But whenever he entered the Lord’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord. Exodus 34:33-35
“We have got to saturate ourselves with the rainbows and the sunset marvels in order to radiate them. It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where they grope, and grovel, and groan, and lift them to new life. After all the deepest truth is that the Christlike life is glorious, undefeatably glorious. There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.”
Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970) in Letters By A Modern Mystic (Feedbooks: 2009) letter entitled, “There is no defeat unless one loses God.”
It would be cool if the faces of people who spent time with Jesus glowed like Moses. Would yours glow?
As I spend time with people in Ukraine during the war, I see a lot of glowing faces. The war has them praying often and fervently. But Milan and I have had a concern as we talk on the long drives and train rides.
We think there’s a good possibility that people will forget about God if peace comes.
They will want to go back to aiming at enjoying life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There’s no worse place they could go. Imagine putting themselves in castles and stockpiling fortunes. Sadly, that’s my country, America.
But honestly, I know many people who have lost God in chasing worldly dreams.
So as I spend my last few days in Ukraine, I do it with a prayer for peace coupled with a prayer for perseverance. I pray the revival of faith will not die, lest the loses of life on the part of soldiers be in vain.
What about you? Do you glow, or have you lost God while housing yourself in a castle with a fortune.
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