I love the song, Mary, did you know? It’s this line that made me think deeper. The song writer asks a question, Mary did you know when you kissed your baby boy, you kissed the face of God? That is such a powerful question, and the answer is yes. However, have we all stopped to wonder how common Mary and Joseph and his own siblings had become with him like we do sometimes to others. Some people will never be able to see God unless they see him through your face.
Let’s rewind a story in the bible. Jacob connives and schemes with his mother Racheal to manipulate the plan of God. Remember, the two brothers were fighting in her womb, and she inquiries about them. God lets her know before they are even born, that the older one would serve the younger one. They do this by devising a plot twist to steal her other son’s blessing. On the back of Jacob already waiting to catch his brother at a vulnerable moment when his hunger supersedes his passion for his birthright. He forgets how valuable it is and sells it for a temporary situation that brings him satisfaction that will cost him something permanent. How many of us have fallen for this same temporary moment and ended up with something we can never change? I ended up with a burden and a blessing.
Only God can restore and heal us in our families and relationships when we have damaged them through reckless encounters to satisfy us only for a moment that ends up costing us precious time. But there is hope in God just like it was for Jacob and Esau.
Jacob is so afraid that the consequences of his past are going to overshadow his future. However, God had already gone before him like he has for you and me. He discovers on this road that God was with him all along. When he sees Esau, he begins to bow to alert him that he is coming in peace and humility. Jacob had really changed. His actions demonstrated that to his twin. You are about to get your butterfly wings. God saw you changing just like a caterpillar metamorphosis’ into a beautiful butterfly.
Some people are being raised as the face of God. Pastor Darius Daniels said, in a recent message, The conclusion of the matter, God loves us so much that He chooses to use us as examples. It’s our choice whether we become a model of what to do or a lesson in what not to do. The enemy wanted to make me an example of failure, but God is taking my life to make me an example of success of what He can do during incredible odds and difficult situations. That is our call together as overcomers. We are being raised as poster children.
This means that to see them serving him and in a place of transformation and integrity, it will be such a witness that God is real. God has done the work in your life and when others see your face, they are going to know they have also seen the face of God through you. Believe God to deliver your loved ones and bring reconciliation. God is giving you a revelation and others that he can restore to the utmost. People are going to say like Jacob, to see you in a place of restoration, for to see your face is like seeing the face of God.
Genesis 33: 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. 4 But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.
9 But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
10 “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God now that you have received me favorably.