Seeing Jesus: The Happiest-Making
Sight
To see God’s face
is the loftiest of all aspirations. In the face of God we will see the
fulfillment of all the longing we have ever had to know perfect love, peace,
and joy, and to know truth and justice, holiness and wisdom, goodness and
power, and glory and beauty. The most astonishing sight we can anticipate in
Heaven is not streets of gold or pearly gates or loved ones who’ve died before
us. It will be coming face-to-face with our Savior. To look into Jesus’ eyes
will be to see what we’ve always longed to see: the person who made us and for
whom we were made. And we’ll see Him in the place He made for us and for which
we were made. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.
Shut your eyes and imagine seeing Jesus for the first time. What a wondrous
thought! And what a wondrous promise!
BY RANDY
ALCORN
Ancient theologians often spoke of the
“beatific vision.”
The term comes from three Latin words that
together mean “a happy-making sight.”
The sight they spoke of was God.
To see God’s face is the loftiest of all
aspirations.
But sadly, for most of us, it’s not at the
top of our list of desires.
Wayne Grudem writes in his Systematic
Theology:
When we look into the face of our Lord and he looks
back at us with infinite love, we will see in him the fulfillment of everything
that we know to be good and right and desirable in the universe. In the face of
God we will see the fulfillment of all the longing we have ever had to know
perfect love, peace, and joy, and to know truth and justice, holiness and
wisdom, goodness and power, and glory and beauty.
The most astonishing sight we can
anticipate in Heaven is not streets of gold or pearly gates or loved ones
who’ve died before us.
It will be coming face-to-face with our
Savior.
To look into Jesus’ eyes will be to see
what we’ve always longed to see: the person who made us and for whom we were
made.
And we’ll see Him in the place He made for
us and for which we were made.
Seeing God will be like seeing everything
else for the first time.
Face
to Face with Jesus
I sometimes ponder what it’ll be like to
see Jesus, to fall on my knees before Him, then talk with Him and eat with Him
and walk with Him as a resurrected person living on a resurrected Earth.
Like Job I’m struck
with the realization that “I myself will
see him with my own eyes — I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”
I try to picture what this will be like in my novel Edge of Eternity, when the main character, Nick Seagrave, at last gazes on Jesus Christ:
The King stepped from the great city, just
outside the gate, and put his hand on my shoulder. I was aware of no one and
nothing but him.
I saw before me an aged, weathered King,
thoughtful guardian of an empire.
But I also saw a virile Warrior-Prince
primed for battle, eager to mount his steed and march in conquest.
His eyes were keen as sharpened swords yet
deep as wells, full of the memories of the old and the dreams of the young.
Shut your eyes and imagine seeing Jesus for the first time. What a wondrous thought! And what a wondrous promise!
Excerpted from Randy's book Face to Face with Jesus.
Randy Alcorn, founder of EPM
Randy
Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of fifty-some books and the founder and
director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.
https://www.epm.org/blog/2019/Jul/10/seeing-jesus
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