Place No Veil Upon Your Face

2 Corinthians 3:17  

"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the 

Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

    Paul say's that we see the glory of the Lord with no veil upon our faces, and because of that we, too, are changed from glory into glory. What Paul means is that, if we gaze at Christ, we in the end reflect him. His image appears in our lives. If we remain Christ, minded, in the end we come to reflect him in our Heavenly Fathers eyes. 

    "The Lord is the Spirit." Here Paul identifies the Risen Lord and the Holy Spirit. We must remember that he was not writing theology; he was setting down experience. And it is the experience of the Christian life that the work of the Spirit and the work of the Risen Lord are one and the same. The strength and guidance we receive come alike from the Spirit and from the Risen Lord. 

    Where the Spirit is, there is liberty. So long as man's obedience to God is conditioned by obedience to a code of laws he is in the position of an unwilling slave. But when it comes from the operation of the Spirit in his heart, the very center of his being has no other desire than to serve God, for then it is not law but love which binds him. Many things which we would resent doing for some stranger are a privilege to do for someone we love. Love clothes the humblest and the most menial tasks with glory. "In God's service we find our perfect freedom." 
Amen!

Reading: (2 Cor. 3:12-18)
Ref: (HG SB; DSB)

May God Bless You

And You Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry