Longing to See His Face

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

~ Psalm 42:2

My sister’s three-year-old woke in the morning and said, “I  want to go to Grandma and Grandpa’s house.” Only problem: Grandma and Grandpa live a thousand miles away. 

“I’m sorry, honey,” my sister said, “it’s too far for us to go for a visit right now. What do you like about Grandma and Grandpa’s house?” 

“Their backyard,” her daughter said, “and their books. And their toys. And . . . I miss Grandpa’s face.”

I thought that captured perfectly this season of Advent.  After the fall, God promised a messiah. Israel waited for the  promised one to arrive through the ages, through the long ages of Israel’s captivity in Egypt, in Babylon, and under various foreign overlords in the Promised Land. Israel looked always with yearning for their redeemer to come. Simeon waited in the Temple to see the face of his Savior. And then, one day, he arrived. Finally Simeon could look upon that face that he and all the Israelites had been waiting to see for so long: the face of our Redeemer, our Savior, our God.

With the arrival of Jesus, a new day dawned, hope came into a forlorn world, truth came into a world dark with lies, and love came into a world where human hearts had grown hard as stone. That day, that momentous day that changed the world forever, is almost upon us. We have only a little time left to prepare to see the face of God.

May I have the grace to see you, Lord, in the midst of all that’s going on.

To Ponder: What can you do today to prepare to meet God?

~ Jake Frost

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