Jesus - The Human Face of God

This is the message from the song entitled "The Face of Jesus" off my album Intimately Consumed.

Psalm 27:4 - "One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and meditate in His temple."

Jacob saw God face to face (Genesis 32:20). The Lord spoke to Moses plainly, not in dark sayings, as a man speaks to his friend - He spoke with him, "mouth to mouth, even open, not in dark sayings (Numbers 12:7-8)." Enoch walked faithfully with God (Gen. 5:22). Noah walked with God (Gen. 6:9). As a child of the most high God, I desire strongly to do the same.

I want to have the same heart that Moses had when he cried out, Lord, "Show me Your glory." I want all His goodness to past before me. I want to live all of my days gazing upon the beauty of the Lord. Living and walking in Him. Abiding in Jesus - I in Him, and He in me. I want to walk in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, not in my own ways or in the flesh. The flesh profits nothing, but the Spirit brings life and peace (John 6:63). I am deeply moved, and in love with a loving, graceful, glorious God. I want to see the Face of Jesus which is the very glory of God (2 Cor. 4:6) I want to hear His voice and learn to recognize it from the voice of the enemy or the accuser of the brethren. I seek His face because I desperately want to know the Father's heart.

The times where I choose to remain in Him and keep my heart in the position to receive His love, I realize that I need nothing else but Him. I realize that all I need is met in Him. All my soul cries out for and longs for is found in Him - in His presence. The third verse of this song goes through a list of different sayings which have been cries of my heart. I want my heart to be completely pure and open before the Lord; for the pure in heart shall see God (Matt. 5:8). I want to see Jesus. I want to gaze upon His beauty. I want my heart to be completely and wholly submitted. I want to honestly be able to say, "Lord, all that I am is Yours - do whatever you will to do with my life."

I end the song by asking for grace to be released over me to walk this out. It's a lifestyle of learning to abide in the love of the Father. I'm in a race, and by His grace, I will finish strongly! I pray that you would also cry out for these things. Not because I want them or they are my desires, but that your heart would be after God in such a way that you would see Jesus clearly. If we can see Him, we will never be the same. For whatever you behold, that is what you become like. He promises not to hide His face from us any longer (Ez. 39:29). We will be transformed the more and more we see the Father clearly. What are your eyes gazing upon? Are you longing for the beauty of Jesus, or for the world and it's simple ways? You and I were created to gaze upon the face of Jesus - let's stop looking elsewhere and gaze into His never ending beauty!

I pray that the Father's love would pierce you in the deepest parts of your heart. That you would see how amazing it is to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. I pray that, if you are searching for more in life, that you would be willing to lay down your life at the feet of Jesus. When you choose to "lose your life," Jesus said that it's in that place where you will truly find it. I pray that you would find the abundance of life that can only be found in the name of Jesus Christ. I pray that your heart would be flooded with the depths of His unconditional love and that your heart would be in the posture to receive Him. I pray that your heart would cry out like Moses did - "Lord, show me your glory." I pray that you would see Him more clearly. I pray that you would seek and see His face. in Jesus Name, Amen