Peniel (Face to Face)

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So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

Face to face with God.

I have had so many visions and dreams of You in a splendor that I know my mind can do no justice to.  I can see the angels like flashes of lightning around the great white throne. As You speak, a sound more powerful and majestic than anything produced by human or human means that penetrates into the very spirit! That creates galaxies out of nothing!

It’s easy to have that picture of You. What I struggled and sometimes still do is seeing You and I, face to face, like man speaks to His friend. Standing before the most perfect person, the most powerful being in the universe, who can hold 7 stars in His hand. Who made something out of nothing. The One who breathed my spirit into my body and created my life! Yet now, You stand before me, face to face. The culmination of my whole life, my existance standing before me. The reason I was created, to fellowship with You, to be Your friend, Your child. Your ultimate creation fulfilling it’s ultimate purpose. What an incredible thing! I can’t get my mind around it. What seems so complex sometimes, is really so simple.

Although my spirit abides in your prescense . One day I will stand before You. Truly face-to-face as a man speaks to his friend. Till that day I will yearn for You, my God, my Father, my Friend.

Till the day You come again.

Kevin