{"id":3369,"date":"2022-02-22T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:06:05","slug":"veiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/02\/22\/veiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Veiled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_1214.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_1214.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_1214-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSC_1214-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>This morning&#8217;s sunrise, taken from indoors because of unwilling knee. &#8220;Red sky in the morning, shepherd&#8217;s warning.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=116\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, in keeping with the Transfiguration theme, contains a bit from 2 Corinthians about how the people of Israel could only encounter God with their faces veiled; whereas now, through Jesus Christ, we can have unveiled faces, seeing God&#8217;s glory as if in a mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, this &#8216;mirror&#8217; analogy suggests there is still something a bit secondhand, a bit attenuated about our encounter with God. And so it has to be. And yet I suspect we are often longing for more &#8230; if we can bear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you really want to see God&#8217;s glory, I suggest taking a lesson from the Luke passage &#8211; not to go up a mountain &#8211; but to see God&#8217;s glory at work where Christ is working in people to bring healing and hope. Having said that &#8211; I think it&#8217;s one of those times I&#8217;m preaching to myself too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OTOH, the hills are quite glorious in their own right too, part of a co-operative effort between God&#8217;s creation and human management (for good or ill).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s lectionary, in keeping with the Transfiguration theme, contains a bit from 2 Corinthians about how the people of Israel could only encounter God with their faces veiled; whereas now, through Jesus Christ, we can have unveiled faces, seeing God&#8217;s glory as if in a mirror. So, this &#8216;mirror&#8217; analogy suggests there is still something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/02\/22\/veiled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Veiled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}