Finally God Unveils His Face!

To finish out the year, I'm sharing seven quotes from George MacDonald, thought-provoking words that may provide the reader with material to meditate on as we transition from the end of this year into the start of a new year. I've chosen different themes from his writings; perhaps one of these may catch your attention. If so, a helpful practice is to take a moment and contemplate it together with Him:

"God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation - a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on, from fact to fact divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus, He unveils His very face. Then begins a fresh unveiling, for the very work of the Father is the work the Son Himself has to do - to reveal..."

"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking."

“You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself." (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

“...there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.”  

“...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.” 

“But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,
That one day we shall thank thee perfectly
For pain and hope and all that led or drove
Us back into the bosom of thy love.”  

“It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.”

May the coming year be one of looking into the face of Jesus and experiencing His work of "casting aside veil after veil...until at length in His Son Jesus, He unveils His very face." God is Christlike!  II Cor. 4:6  For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made us understand that it is the brightness of his glory that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.