Guest Blogger- Mark West

He Removed My Veil

“Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.”
2 Corinthians 3:15-16

Reading this passage brings back the fondest memory in my faith. I wasn’t raised in church so I missed out on the benefit of sleeping….err, I mean sitting under great preaching every Sunday as a child. I wasn’t made new by Christ until my college days.

I recall during the time prior to coming to Christ, that I would often try to read the Bible. However, my efforts were always frustrated as His word didn’t make sense to me. I would read and it was nothing more than words on a page, like so many of the books I had read in my life.

Fortunately for me, that all change one summer morning as I was in the midst of another attempt to read the Bible. Suddenly, and unexpectedly I might add, God’s word jumped off the paper pages into my heart. What had been a mere collection of stories and testimonials became a real, living organism in my hands.

I went back to passages that I had read in the past that suddenly made sense and tied into the point that God wants to make me, and all of us, new creations. I was set free from the veil that had covered my face as I read His word. He freely opened His truth to me!

I also recall my wedding day when I read this passage. You see, on that day I removed her veil. I saw my wife through the veil, but only a shaded view of her. He face covered and shielded by the veil. When I removed the veil, I saw the glory and beauty of her expression. She reflected the glory of me because, to me, she was and is beautiful to behold. Her beauty had to be unleashed by me. Better yet, her beauty was unleashed FOR me!

My beauty had to be unleashed by Christ! My beauty had to be unleashed FOR Christ! The same goes for all of us. We exist in this world as faded, greyed out images of that which God designed us. The only means by which we can fully express the glory within us is for us to reflect the glory of Christ. He has to remove our veil and set us free to reflect His glory.

I am so thankful for the day that He removed the veil from my eyes and made His word come alive into my life. I didn’t deserve such a treat and still don’t deserve the abundance of His living word that He pours into my life daily.

Did everything suddenly become set right in my life? By no means, but now I had my “war footing” to begin walking daily in a battle against evil in this world. The beauty and glory for which I was designed could only be unleashed on this world once the veil was removed.

God changed me. God changes me. God will change me. He was, and is, and is to come!

As we gaze upon Him in His word we see His glory and are transformed by it daily. The more we gaze, the more we change.

“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.”
2 Corinthians 3:18