16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
It's interesting that this verse stood out to me this morning during my quiet time. It's interesting because it was as if a veil was lifted from my own eyes and I could see clearly again. As a Christian I often talk about the freedom we experience in Christ. But today I understood a new level of that freedom.
The Word of God is living and active and pierces through bone and marrow to the very heart of the soul. Yet when I was an atheist I read the Word of God with a veil over my eyes unable to see the Love and Freedom that were in those words, in Him.
Christians around me helped me to see the love of Christ and brought it to me with their own troubles and afflictions and sufferings. It was the love that shines as a light in all believers that I saw and that drew me to Christ. As paul writes "But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." 2 Cor 4:7.
So it was by their humility and brokeness that I was drawn to the Lord and my veil removed. I was pierced and my sin lay open before the Lord. It was then that I realized I didn't have to keep it all together but I was free. In the loving embrace of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I was finally free to be me. Not the me of the world but the me that God had intended from the beginning.
Now I am being transformed, along with all the saints, into the same image of Christ that beheld when the veil was first removed. The Lord is working in me daily for His glory and renewing me to my freedom. It is a joyful thing for the believer.
The question remains: What veils your sight?
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