If This Isn’t Visible Jesus Is Invisible – To You and To Others

We’ve all benefited from the grace of God that recovers what sin ruins. When our father Adam sinned, he ruined our identity created after the image of God. Until we’re redeemed, we’re ruined.

But once rescued, redeemed, and recovered by the grace of God our identity with God is restored. Glory! Basic theology, right? But here’s the thing that has me thinking:

If God’s chief attribute is holiness, why aren’t we who claim the name of Christ more like Him?

Heb. 12:14 is one of those challenging verses that I often drift back to in my walk with Jesus.

If we who believe are not actively pursuing peace and holiness, then we’re not seeing Jesus as He is, and others aren’t seeing Jesus through us. So, who are they seeing? It’s a fair question.

The psalmist tells us to “worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness”. It’s how we give Him glory (Psa. 29:2). Okay, so what is holiness? It sounds important and it’s tied to worship and peace. 

Worship carries the idea of reverence and respect, going prostrate or bowing down.

Holiness is purity of heart, or disposition, seeking moral goodness and sanctified affections. But it’s more. It’s also consecration, a willful setting apart to never go back to former uses.

Holiness is not merely external conformity to some standard. It’s the whole person exhibiting the character of Jesus in a posture of humility and submission to Christ. Our flesh rebels against that!

My goal here is not to criticize, condemn, or coerce. I simply suggest we take some time to think deeply and honestly about who our life makes visible:

Self, the one whom sin has ruined and seeks to be on display, or the set-apart one whom the Saviour has redeemed after His image and seeks to put on display?

How might our lives and the lives around us be impacted if Jesus was more visible: He increases, and we decrease, better yet decease – dead and hid with Christ in God?

Self would have to bow to Christ. In fact, that’s our personal responsibility and great opportunity to worship in Spirit and truth just as God desires. And might I say it, demands (2 Cor. 7:1)!

Maybe you could take a minute to check in with God and ask Him to show you how your life reflects His character and how it hides or distorts it. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

If holiness is not visible, Jesus is invisible, to you and to others. That’s worth pondering and perfecting. I have some yielding and bowing to do, how about you?

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