Look!

Rubbernecking. It’s an issue that plagues us all from time to time. It is generally a term we use when someone slows down in an unreasonably, untimely, or just unwise manner to look at something that has caught their eye. Rubbernecking can be quite dangerous. Whether you are the one performing the ghastly action or are victim to someone else’s rubbernecking, it has likely affected us all at one time or another.

But there is another kind of slowing down to look that is not dangerous. In fact, it is life-giving…transforming.

Look at the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ! All of Creation speaks to His mesmerizing, creative power and beauty in a general sense. And even more wonderful and specific is to gaze at the beauty of the Lord as we read the Bible, piece by piece, word by word, book by book.

In the Bible we see – first with our eyes, and then hopefully with our hearts – the glory, wonder, beauty (real beauty) of God!

It comes to us through rocky crags of sin-wrought lives that are dangerous – deadly, in fact. Then it turns to beauty as we gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. This beauty, this glory, grows more wonderful with every passing moment that we look intently – preaching to ourselves you might say – at how God gave His only Son (Jesus) to be the perfect righteousness and sacrifice for our sins.

I have been a Christian for many years and I still need to gaze at this wonderful beauty every day. 2 Corinthians 3:18 explains that we are “being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”

The key to it all, however, is to look in the perfect Word of God with a humble, believing, repentant heart. Need a place to begin? You might consider 1 Cor 15:3-4 or John 3.

Look!