Seeing God

If it ever seems that God is absent and is nowhere to be found, we need to look into the eyes of the people whom God has put in front of us.  Or, if it is at the end of the day, look back over it and remember the ones with whom a conversation, or a greeting, or an act of kindness has been shared.  If we look closely enough with eyes that are open to see what God is about in our lives, we will surely see His presence.  Each of us is like a sunset.  We see the glorious sunset and it seems that we have experienced the presence of God in the world.  We, too, are each glorious evidences of His presence in the world.   

Unfortunately, we do not always see one another in such a way.  Sometimes we have been guilty of seeing others as steps for us to use to get to the top of whatever ladder we are climbing.  Sometimes we have looked only for signs of things bad in those around us.  It always seems easier to judge than exalt.  When the Scripture is taken seriously, we are led to a different place in our shared life with one another.    

As surely as that evening sun is an expression of the glory of God, so are each one of us.  In the book of Genesis we are told that we bear the imprint of the Holy.  It is His image that we bear.  We are marked with the essence of the Holy God and Creator who brought us into being.  And  then, in I Corinthians 6:19 we hear the Word of God saying, "...do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?  If we want to see where the Holy Spirit has been dwelling and where He has been revealing Himself to us in those days when He seems absent, look and remember the eyes of those we have seen, and know that in those eyes we have seen evidence of God's presence in our lives.