Veiled Deity

Veiled deity.  Its an odd concept.  For how can it be that someone who desires to reveal Himself is unable to do so?  How can it be that someone so personal and close would desire to reveal Himself so much as to come to Earth, even to take the form of the very creation He had made?

A God who desires intimacy with His creation but who cannot reveal Himself in His fullness because to do so would destroy all whom are not as Holy as He.  Yet, He desires to do so and to enable us to come to know Him.  Therefore, He must turn His back when Moses asks to see His face and permits just a glimpse of who He is (Exo 33:18-23). 

Later He will send forth the Messiah.  Jesus, the Anointed One, the Christ, a man without a physical description who was the true fulfillment of a personal God.  He was God veiled in human flesh.  Full of grace and power, strength and mercy, He walked this earth but the world did not know Him.  Though He had been the One to create all things, His handiwork had not recognized their Creator.

Veiled deity.  Hidden glory.  Covered majesty.  The world He came to save, the Kingdom He came to announce, the God He came to reveal was His greatest attempt to express the love that He has for all of mankind.

Joshua