Only Dead People See God!

Moses had the audacity to ask God: “Show me your glory.” And God agreed to show Moses the backside of His glory, saying “you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen…for no man can see Me and live!” (Exodus 33)

If not one can see God and live, then logically, can we not say that only dead people can see God!?

I find two “dying to live” principles that derive from this Old Testament decree (no one can see God and live) that relate to us as New Covenant believers:

First, Jesus said blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. The only way our hearts can be ‘pure’ is to die to our sinful and self-centered selves. So to see God, we must surrender, or die to, our self-centeredness. The wonderful result is a God-centeredness that changes the way we see all of life.

Second, since only ‘dead’ people see God, doesn’t it make sense that the ‘deader’ we are to self-life, the more alive we become God-life, and the more we see God.

Consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus…and pursue peace with all men and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord (Romans 6:11; Hebrews 12:14).