IT'S WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE

IT'S WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE

There are some faces that just give everything away. You know the ones I
am talking about. They don't have to say a word - you can tell by
looking at them if they are up to no good or if they have a secret they
are dying to tell you. You can read a person's face and tell by their
countenance if they are having a bad day and you'd better stay out of
their way.

You've heard the expressions: "You look like the cat that swallowed the
canary?" "You're grinning from ear to ear ... what's up?" "Something's
up - it's written all over your face!"

Our face's are often a good read of what is going on in a person's
heart. Solomon wrote: "Just as water mirrors your face, so your face
mirrors your heart." Proverbs 27:19 (The Message)

When we spend time with the Lord it not only transforms our hearts
(inside) but it transforms our countenance (outside).

Remember Moses? "Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone
while he talked with Him." (Exodus 34:29)

Then there was Stephen -- "All who sat in the council looking
steadfastly at Stephen, saw his face as the face of an angel." (Acts
6:15)

And Paul reminds us that we too have transformed faces because of our
relationship with Him and the time we spend in His presence: "We all,
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are
being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as the
Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:18)

So tell me today - what's your face saying? To your spouse? Your kids?
Your co-workers? Can they tell by what's written all over your face that
you have been in His presence? Good thoughts to consider this morning.
Maybe today is a good day to allow the Spirit of God to do a face-lift!
Get alone with Him today.

Great quote: "Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in
earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights
of sin, and, finding them to be vanity, and emptiness, they will become
very perplexed and disappointed. But they will continue their fruitless
search. Though wearied, they still stagger forward under the influence
of spiritual madness, and though there is no result to be reached except
that of everlasting disappointment, yet they press forward. They have
no forethought for their eternal state; the present hour absorbs them.
They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to
find water where not a drop was ever discovered yet." Charles Haddon
Spurgeon