CAN WE STAND TRUTH?

January 14

Psalms 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

In the Hebrew tongue, this expression ‘open thou mine eyes’ has a much stronger meaning. It is more like “shamelessly expose, denude, make naked”.

How much can we stand to look at the naked Truth of God in the face? Before Jesus finally declared God unto us, no one had even seen God (John 1:18). The seventy elders who accompanied Moses on Mt Sinai could not even stand to hear the sound of His voice, so much so, that they pleaded with Moses to be their mediator, a mediator that was later replaced by Jesus (Ex 20:18-19; Deut 18:15-19; Acts:3:22-23; Acts 7:37).

God spoke with Moses’“face to face’, and after one such encounter, Moses’ face shone so that he had to put a “vail” on it. (Ex 33:11; 34:29-35). Since this event was in pre-crucifixion times, still being in their un-atoned sinful state, it is understandable that the Children of Israel could not stand to see the glory of God no, not even on the face of Moses, a man from among them.

What about today? Do we still need to cover the brightness of the truth of God with a “vail” so we don’t have to look at it, don’t know it and can live in denial of its requirements? Can we truly ask God to denude, reveal and expose His truth to us? Do we put ourselves in the spiritually yielded position of listening’ hearing, receiving and learn His wonderful truth?

Psalms 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.