We are told in the book of Exodus that God would speak to Moses "face to face, as a man speaks with his friend." We are also told that after these meetings with the Lord God Moses' face would glow and he would be difficult to look at. To make things more comfortable for the people Moses would put a veil over his face until the glow died down. Where would this glow come from? Quite simply the glory of God. Moses had been in the presence of someone so radiant and glorious that his whole countenance would be changed. Saul, on the road to Damascus, encounters Jesus as such a bright light that he is blinded. Later in life he writes to Timothy "God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light..." Finally, in the book of Revelation it states regarding the New Jerusalem: "The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there." (Revelation 21:23-25)
I wonder what it will be like to live in the presence of this glorious light. I wonder how it will affect me.
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