Wednesday | 16 April 2025
At this time, the Spirit is calling us all to cease from hiding our faces from Christ so that we can be delivered from the iniquitous projections that impede our participation in the fellowship of agape, and can be established in our sanctification. Isa 53:3. Thankfully, the Spirit is enabling us to look upon, and to see, the Son of Man.
Emphasising this imperative, the apostle John recounted Jesus’ interaction with the man who was born blind. Hearing that the man had been cast out of the synagogue, Jesus found him and said to him, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God?’ The man asked, ‘Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?’ Significantly, Jesus answered, ‘You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.’ Joh 9:35-37. In other words, the man had been enabled to look upon and see the Son of Man and was receiving His word as a disciple of Christ. Now illuminated, and filled with faith, the man responded, saying, ‘Lord I believe!’ and he worshipped Jesus. Joh 9:38.
Jesus then summed up the whole matter, which the Spirit is presently highlighting to us, saying, ‘For judgement I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.’ Joh 9:39.
When our eyes are opened to see Christ, it is an astonishing interaction. The prophet Isaiah noted, ‘Just as many were astonished at you, so His visage was marred more than any man’. Isa 52:14. A person is astonished when they see that Christ’s visage ‘was marred more than any man’, and then to understand that this marring was because of their fallen projection that had been transferred to Him. This interaction with Christ quickens faith. As a believer ‘looks on Him whom they have pierced’, as Peter did, they are able to mourn for Christ ‘as for a Firstborn’. Zec 12:10. This mourning leads to repentance, establishing them on the pathway of salvation. 2Co 7:10.
Further Study:
2 Corinthians 7
References:
Isa 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Joh 9:35-39
Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God?’ He answered and said, ‘Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?’ And Jesus said to him, ‘You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.’ Then he said, ‘Lord, I believe!’ And he worshipped Him. And Jesus said, ‘For judgement I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.’
Isa 52:14
Just as many were astonished at you, so His visage was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men.
Zec 12:10
And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
2Co 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.