Our unveiled faces reflect more to our culture than we realize.
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
Even the unrighteous see His image in creation, yet they suppress the truth. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” Roman 1:18-20
As Francis Schaeffer quipped, “So How Should We Then Live”?
We are to live coram Deo, before the face of the Triune God of the Bible, Maker of heaven and earth. No glare or fierce gaze over a veiled face strikes as much fear in man as the penetrating gaze of the Most Holy God. He alone is to be feared.
“To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
To live in the presence of God is to understand that whatever we are doing and wherever we are doing it, we are acting under the gaze of God. God is omnipresent. There is no place so remote that we can escape His penetrating gaze.“
-R C Sproul
If you find that you are walking in fear of pleasing men, or contracting an illness, or not going along with the culture of the world or even the current Christian church culture, repent. Turn to Jesus, “and do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.“
splendor in the ordinary 