HIS FACE IN OUR HEART . CONSTANCE: There is difference between a pure heart and a bright heart. You have learnt to be pure in heart; now is the time you must learn to be bright in heart. To be pure in heart means to be clean in heart; but to be bright in heart means to be glorious in heart. Learn to store glory in your heart as well as purity. . NELLY: How? . CONSTANCE: The pure in heart shall see God; but only those who see God shall be bright in heart. Purity of heart is the way to gain brightness of heart, when you see God in your heart. . NELLY: I thought the pure in heart shall see God when they get to heaven? I mean, it is a futuristic promise; you know, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God’ [Matthew 5:8]. Are the pure in heart seeing God now or later when Jesus returns? . CONSTANCE: Both ways: We see God now with our heart, and we shall see God face to face when He appears. • 1 John [3:2] and Revelation [22:4] say we shall see God face to face. • However, apart from ‘Face to Face’ sighting of God, there is the heart’s sighting of God. That sighting of God in the heart is ongoing now for those who know how to behold Him in their heart. You can see Him in your heart, if Jesus Christ dwells therein [2 Corinthians 4:6-7]. . Now, the more you behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ through the eyes of your heart, the more your heart grows brighter and more glorious. Remember, the light of the body is the eyes (eyes of the heart) – learn to brighten the eyes of your heart by beholding the glory of God on the face of Jesus Christ therein. Knowing this, if the eye of your heart is bright, your heart is also bright; and that shall translate to the brightness of your whole body in the day we shall meet with Him face to face. . Thus, while you seek to be pure in heart, ensure the light in you is also brightened. As it is written, “Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness. Therefore, If your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle does give you light” [[Luke 11:35-36]] . NELLY: So I have to work on both the purity of my heart and brightness of my heart? I thought purity itself is the brightness of the heart? . CONSTANCE: Purity helps the brightness or brilliance of the heart, but it is not the brightness of the heart. The brightness of the heart is your ‘Vision’ of Christ Jesus or the nature of the eyes of your heart. . Take the ten virgins for examples. The ten of them were virgins, meaning they were all pure in heart; but the five wise ones that had the light of their lamps lit up, had their brightness with them. They were all virgins awaiting for the Groom, but only those five that had their lamps lit up when the Groom arrived saw Him; the other five never set their eyes on the Groom. . There are pure people whose lights are hidden; let your light keep burning brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. . NELLY: Now I need you to tell me how I can have this brilliance of the heart. . CONSTANCE: I told you already, it is by beholding the glory of God on the Face of Jesus Christ. If the people of Israel had beheld the glory of God on the face of Moses, there would not have been veils over their heart while reading Moses. That glory of God on the face of Moses was meant to take away the veil in their hearts to make their hearts brighter. Whatever came between the face of Moses and the eyes of the people, also remained over their heart while beholding Moses. Heart and mind means the same here. . Now, it is no more the Face of Moses that God has placed His glory for us to see; rather it is on the face of Jesus Christ. As it is written, “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” [2 Corinthians 4:6-7]. . NELLY: So Moses and Jesus Christ were the two men God placed His glory for other men to behold? . CONSTANCE: Yes, just the two of them. However, the glory on Moses’ face was past or had an end; but the glory on Jesus’ face has no end [2 Corinthians 3:7-18]. . • With the glory on the face of Moses were the tablets of stones written. The glory of the writing on the tablets of stones was meant to reflect the glory on the face of Moses. But Moses mistakenly placed veil over his face, while showing the people the written tablets of stones. • With the glory on the face of Jesus we have the tablets of our hearts now being written [2 Corinthians 3:3]. And there is no veil, only transparent glass, on our face while behold the Face of Jesus Christ. That is how we are also changed into His image, from glory to glory. [2 Corinthians 3:16-18] . Read the whole of second Corinthians 3 to understand the comparison between the glory on the face of Moses and the glory on the face of Jesus Christ; and how the tablets of stones answered to the glory on the face of Moses, while the tablets of our heart answer to the glory on the face of Jesus Christ. . NELLY: But then, they could still see Moses physically, even though they could not see his face by reason of the veil. Now we do not see Jesus face to face, let alone sighting His face. . CONSTANCE: Seeing Jesus face to face will change our body when He appears, but seeing Jesus with our heart will change our glory in the heart. That you cannot see Jesus face to face does not mean you cannot see Him through His Spirit in your heart. . It is about change; and there are two ways to see Him and be changed into His image or likeness. • One way to see Him and be changed into His likeness is by seeing Him face to face. As it is written, “Beloved, we are now the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is” [[1 John 3:2]] • The Second way to see Him and be changed into His image is by seeing Him with unveiled face or open face through our heart. As it is written, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” [[2 Corinthians 3:18]]. . NELLY: Since you have seen His facial glory often times in your heart, can I look at your face and get the same glory? You are like Christ’s minister to me, and you should convey His glory on your face. . CONSTANCE: You cannot see that glory by beholding my face, even as a minister; rather you must behold the Face of Christ, even while hearing me minister to you. I got more of His glory in my heart, not by looking at the face of any man of God, but by looking directly at the Face of the Son of God. And that glory is within my heart, not on my face for now, until Christ appears to make what is written and stored in our hearts to manifest on our outward appearance. . I can only minister the Spirit to you, and then the Spirit will change you into the image of Christ from glory to glory while you behold Him with unveiled eyes. . Even so, no man is called to bear God’s Face on His Face except Jesus Christ the only Begotten Son of God. We can bear the Face of God in our Heart, but we cannot bear His Face on our Face; Only Jesus can do that. As it is written, ““God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right Hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they” [[Hebrews 1:1-4]]
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