“Becoming like the God that one worships.”

 

The punch line of Psalm 115 is that one becomes more and more like the god that one worships. Like a chameleon that disappears to the eyesight by looking like the environment. The God of the universe who is spirit and invisible makes himself visible through his son our Lord Jesus.

 

What happened to the Chameleons also happened to humans. We must become part of the kingdom of God we worship by adopting the looks of the kingdom, so that when anybody sees us, they don’t see us only but the kingdom of God.

 

Thanks to God and his grace, in love there have been invisible hands carving beauty into the face of the followers of Jesus. This “beauty” doesn’t have anything to do with “pretty.” The seemingly ugly lines in your face seem to be misplaced in your countenance but it’s actually designed to convey a message of godliness.

 

The amazing thing about the body is that it does not lie. Whatever life you have lived is carved in your face just like landslides leave scars on the surface of the land after the rain.  Our bodies have eyes and the eyes like headlights beams light through your eyes to the point that if your eyes are good your whole body is good but if your eyes are bad your whole body is bad. If darkness in your body is thick, how thick is the darkness? If light dwells in your body, how precious is the light of God in you?

 

By religious zeal one organizes too much of the things of the invisible world that end up making God so visible to the touch that they will not help themselves but to represent the conception of idols. Idols have eyes but cannot see, mouth but cannot speak, ears but cannot hear. The more that you worship those idols, the more you become like one of them.

 

Beware, God is doing his work in you and, “He who has begun the good work in you will accomplish that work in you, for you and in spite of you.”  Beware of the invisible hands that carve the gospel on your face. The gospel is a Song you can see and not only hear it.

 

There is glamour that wickedness pursues called “The gods of their own thinking.”  These are no different from the golden calf of the times of Aaron and Moses. This is replacing God the Creator by the created and happens after the Lord has spoken clearly, “You shall not make any image after me.”

 

My son told me once to “forget my wrinkles that are well earned.”

May the Lord lift his face toward you and give you peace as you become like him in Jesus. Rejecting a wrinkle free life.

 

Gerry Gutierrez

 

PS. My boys look like me in appearance only, but the real beauty in them is Jesus the Lord. Nathaniel, Caleb, Ben and Gerry, Gerardito, Luke, Jeremiah, Simeon, Osman and Gerry.