As you can see, I love posting random pictures that have nothing to do with anything. This one is called "Great Sand Dunes", but it looks more like "Mountain on a Large Ranch" to me. Tim? Help me out here.

So, in the midst of talking about how God clothes us from Genesis to Revelation (I'm not kidding: it begins in Genesis 3:21 and ends with Revelation 19:7-8!), we see God in 2 Corinthians unclothing us just a tiny bit.

Chapter 3, verses 15 and 16 say this: Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

Do you remember the veil in the temple being torn in two when Christ died? We know that showed that God was not separating Himself from us any longer, that the sin that had kept us from God had been dealt with, that God's wrath against us had been fully poured out on Christ.

Just so with the veil over our hearts. When we turn to Christ for salvation, He removes the veil and shows Himself more clearly to us. We get to understand Scripture in a way we never were able before. The Holy Spirit illumines our reading and our meditating. Surely you have found that to be true.

But here's the best part: And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit (verse 18). The more, then, that we look at Christ in His Word, illumined by the Spirit, the more like Him we become! If that isn't motivation to stay in the Word regularly, nothing will be. From one degree of glory to another. Hallelujah.