There are a multiplicity of moments in which I feel faceless in the perception of others. Ideas roll through my mind and visions fulminate from the depths of my life in isolation; in the hidden room. Heck, visions arise and expand in my vast life of worship. Fallen in prostration, yearning, and knowing the preestablished truth that the Lord -- his name is Emmanuel. He says I am the God of all comfort. The Lord -- he says he comes, he does not keep silent. Rumors are disseminated bolstering of the gifts and passions of this one man, and his name is... What is the meaning? What does this name embody? What is the incarnation? Well, we do not not know, we only know that his name is... Blank, nothing, invisible. Where is the vitality, where is the purpose? Empty.
The truth is, each person wants to be known, and each person desires overwhelmingly for an identity. They want to be given a name; not just several letters that are consolidated to be linguistically correct. What we want is not what we receive, and what others perceive is not what should be seen. We want others to see the physical and internal beauties. The things that are visible, and abstractly evident. These amount to idols for the individual observed. We desire others to see our affections and the depths of our heart for the convictions in our souls. We desire to be admired for such fountains of righteousness that conceive of lies and obstructions from what is true. And what others see, which is also visible, does not fulfill a purpose, but simply begins to appear obsolete. It is temporal, it does not put a name on it. It spells out the temporal letters without persisting to seek the underlying meaning.
This diabolic exchange of what we want others to see and what they do envision blinds us from who we are and the one that sees us with a face that transcends what is physical. We are encumbered, though we do not recognize it, and it blinds us from the one who has given us a name. We seek what we do not receive, and others perceive us in a manner contrary to what should be seen. We continue to pursue that face which is faceless because it is visible. Yet what we adamantly convince ourselves is that it is permanent. One thing I can declare -- a face that is both visible and faceless is dissolving and diminutive. We have to begin to desire a face that is everlasting, a heart consisting of elements that will be forever sustained, and we have to begin seeing in a manner that prints an eternal name.
"as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen, for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
kingdom of God.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Amen
