52 Week Bible Reading Plan

Traditional (Exodus 15-16)

Chronological (Genesis 42-43)

2 Corinthians 3:18

  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  The outstanding characteristic of a Christian is the unveiled frankness before God so that the life becomes a mirror for other lives. By being filled with the Spirit we are transformed, and by beholding we become mirrors. You always know when man has been beholding the glory of the Lord, you feel in your inner spirit that he is the mirror of the Lord's own character. Beware of anything which would sully that mirror in you; it is nearly always a good thing, that is not the best.
The golden rule your life and mine is this concentrate keeping of the life open towards God. Let everything else--work, cloths, food, everything on earth--go by the board, saving that one thing. The rush of the other things always tends to obscure this concentration on God. we have to maintain ourselves in the place of beholding, keeping the life absolutely spiritual all through.  Let other things come and go as they may, let other people criticize as the will, but never allow anything to obscure the life that is hid with Christ in God.  Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.  It is the only thing that is apt to fluctuate but it out not to.  The severest discipline of a Christian's life is to learn how to keep "beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord."