"Now the Lord is the Spirit, & where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."
(II Cor. 3:17-18)
Jesus came to reveal the Father to us & restore the original intention of the image of God in man. He came to show us the Father & how the Father births sons into His very same image. Likewise, the Holy Spirit also comes to transform us into His same image.
As the express image of God, Jesus gave us the picture of what we are longing to become. He is the picture of God's intention for us. It is the Holy Spirit's job to transform us into His image as we behold Him.
So many times, we set our eyes on our weaknesses & feel that we are failures. This is a huge hindrance to the work of the Holy Spirit, because His intention is for us to behold Him and become more like Him as we see what we are supposed to look like. Jesus is the ultimate example for us for our entire lives.
I John 3:2-3 says, "Beloved, now we are children of God; & it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as he is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies Himself just as He is pure..."
We must not set our eyes on what we are now, but set our eyes on what we shall be--setting our eyes on this hope that one day we will be like Him & we will see Him in all purity without that dim glass of our own thoughts & wrong views of God. One day, we will see Him for who He really is. It is this hope that purifies us & transforms us from glory to glory...
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