How lovely are your words today, God our loving Father leading us the way closer to you through your Son Jesus Christ! So many times, you lead us to many detours in life, to many coming and going in order to savor your loving presence.
How can we not appreciate and be awed like your people in the wilderness who witnessed your immense majesty on the face of Moses you met frequently inside your tent putting on and off the veil that eventually played a role in our faith.
As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he conversed with the Lord. Whenever Moses entered the presence of the Lord to converse with him, he removed the veil until he came out again. On coming out, he would tell the children of Israel all that had been commanded. Then the children of Israel would see that the skin of Moses' face was radiant; so he would put again the veil over his face until he went in to converse with the Lord. (Exodus 34:29, 34-35)
In your eternal wisdom, dear Father, you eventually removed that veil in the coming of your Son Jesus Christ so we can go nearer to you than ever to be one with you in him through him, and with him by going through the same process of going in and going out.
Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys the field. Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it." (Matthew 13:44-46)
We pray, O Lord, we remain focused in you alone, learning to adapt, willing to let go whatever we hold so that even if we do not see you face to face like your beloved disciple in the empty tomb that Easter morn, we may still believe even if we only see the veil that covered your face, wrapped neatly into one place. Amen.
