Towards the end of 2023, I held this invitation and instruction from the Lord to “behold the Lamb” with an understanding that there was much more He desired to reveal regarding Jesus.
We pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, but for what purpose? Paul wrote in Galatians chapter one, that it pleased the Father to reveal in him (Paul), His son (Jesus). Paul carried with this knowledge not only the will of God (His intent to reveal Jesus) but also the purpose of His will, that he might preach this revelation to the Gentiles. Jesus himself said to his disciples, no longer do I call you servants but friends because all that he learned from the Father he made known to them, John 15. Now, today, we have access to these words and His precious Holy Spirit to bring us into wisdom and understanding of Him. As we behold them, we behold Him.
Looking at Matthew 11:29, Jesus invites his disciples to come to Him and learn of Him. I noted His own declaration, I am meek and humble of heart. This is his yoke. This is His way. This must be revealed to us that it might manifest through us. We do ourselves a dis-service not to understand and adapt ourselves to His yoke of meekness and humility. We must see and learn Christ.
We’ve all heard you can’t preach what you don’t know and you surely can’t reveal the one you have not seen or learned. As we have all faced our own peculiar circumstances and events in 2023, hopefully we have seen and learned Christ in and through them to a greater degree. Having been sharpened and aligned in ways only hardships and suffering produce, we come forth as vessels refined and fitted for a new day.
We have come into a season where the greater glory of our Lord is being released upon the deep darkness covering the earth. This administration is called a ministry of the Spirit which Corinthians reminds us is a greater glory and unto life for all peoples, Is. 60; 2 Cor. 3:8-18.
Again, Paul writes that we first must behold the image of the Lord with unveiled faces to be transformed from one degree of glory to another into the very image we behold. It is in beholding that transformation occurs so we can then display His glory. The knowledge of this glory, Habakkuk prophesied, would cover the earth as the water covers the sea. Paul declares that as servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, light is to shine from our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:5-6.
It is as Jesus is revealed to us, and in us, the hope of glory becomes manifest to the world we live in. In this season where God desires for every member of His body to arise and shine, may we be mindful of our part to live continually beholding the one to whom all glory is due.