Unveiling Revelation
After spending time talking and listening to
God (which is also known as "praying"), Moses descends from Mount
Sinai to the Israelites in order to share with them the fruits of his divine
encounter. Moses was not aware that his
face had become radiant in reflecting God's glory - this miracle was to show
that, the more that we, God's children, unite ourselves with Him and grow in
our knowledge of Him, the more we actually become like Him.
But Moses had to veil this radiance, for it
was too awesome for the rest of the people to long endure. In the third chapter of his second letter to
the Corinthians, St. Paul remarks how Christ wholly "unveils" God's glory to present us with the fullness
of revelation. However, as St. Paul goes
on to point out, there are those who shrink from that awesome fullness of
revelation, and are content with merely a veiled version of God's plan of
salvation.
While explicitly affirming that even a veiled
version of divine revelation is in itself an awesome blessing, Paul's point, of
course, is that the fullness of revelation is immensely superior to a partial
unveiling. The desire to welcome the
fullness of revelation, though, demands the fullness of personal commitment -
are you ready to reach for that, or are you content with just the veiled
version?