Can I See Your Face?

Can I see your face?

What I really need is to see You, O Lord

there is so much I do not understand

so much that is painful for me to try to look squarely at and understand

so much that is bewildering and confusing


Thank you

you don't call me to be wise or understanding in myself

when I don't know what to think or say really -  that's okay


You have called me to know You

To see who You are

You invite me to see your beauty

to be drawn into your wonder

only You truly amaze



Oh Lord,
I am tired, and feeling lost
help me to turn away from all else

to look upon you in all your loveliness

You invite me like Thomas to see your scarred hands
to touch your wounded side

you were wounded in the house of your friends

rejected and despised by those you came to save

you understand the grief and bewilderment that betrayal brings

it is by your wounds that we are healed

But even more than this

You invite us to look up into your face

to see the glory of the Father shining out

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”

16 And[e] of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,[f] who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

Help us to be daily in your word so we can see you afresh day by day

Amen