A couple of weeks ago, we went for our biometrics to be taken at an office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Immigration processes generate some tension. He who has gone through one of these processes and has prepared its petition, knows the stress that I mean. It's a feeling of doubt. It's questioning: "It's everything complete? Will the documents I deposited be enough?", BUT... in this office, that tension is not felt. There was a special silence, but the silence produced by respect... it's the silence of expectation. We all received a form to fill out and return when we were called by a serial number given to us with the form. We were pointed where to sit and they started to call people... or numbers. Each person stood up, gave the number and form, and an employee of the office showed everybody where to go. After completing the appointment, everybody came out through the same place they entered, enabling those who where still waiting, to see their faces... That face we saw, is the one I wanted to refer to you.
It was a... radiant face. People came out with joy... It was a joy that didn't need words. It was a joy that transcended their bodies. They even accommodated their clothes while coming out. They had been transformed by the experience and words weren't necessary.
Is that the case when we are with God? Do we come out with a radiant appearance when we are in the presence of God? Do we come out transformed by the experience? Do people realize that you've been with God, because of the way you talk or because of the way you live?
"When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord."
Later in the book of Exodus, we read that whenever Moses spoke with God, had a radiant face. Such was the glory of God and the level of closeness with God that Moses developed, that some of the glory of God was reflected in Moses's face. It even says that people felt fear and didn't want to come to him.
What would happened if the diligence and effort we invest in material and fully human things, we would invest in the searching for God and having an experience with Him? What if the level of joy and emotion expressed towards things of this life, were felt by us as a result of us pursuing a relationship with God?
What would happened if the Church would achieve such level of intimacy with God? What would happened if the Church were so close to God, that part of His glory were reflected in us? What would happened if we Christians could reach a level of closeness with God in which preaching wasn't even "necessary", because people got the message through the evident power that provoked a complete transformation in the way we live?
If we'd live to experience that level of closeness to God our lives would simply be extraordinary. God doesn't change... He is the same today and will always be the same. He is even closer than in the days of Moses... What do we expect to start living radiant lives?
JUST SAYING!!!
God bless you,
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