Essence

1 John 3:2

     Someone once described heaven to me this way: you are going through life seeing what you can see, moving right along until the moment comes that that you go to see an optometrist and get a new air of glasses. All of a sudden you can see everything so clearly. You see what you could not see before and in contrast you see al the things you were not able to see. Instant clarity!

     When God is revealed to us, who or what will we see? What is the essence of God?and since we are created in the image of God, what is our own essence?

     Here's the kicker, I don't really know.  I haven't been to that extra special optometrist yet.
The trite answer is love and I suspect that is pretty much on the money. But humanity? If love is the answer, we have gone pretty far astray. It's no wonder God Decided to take on human form, embrace our humanity to the full and show us The Way.

      Some might propose that our essence is evil. That might be equally as legitimate based on the evidence of what we seem capable of. Now that raises an interesting idea, being capable of...... what is our potential? What are we capable of doing? Good? Evil?
Is that our essence? Capacity to do “x” “y” or “z”?
 I think The face of God and the essence of God abounds, it is all around us if we choose to see. We don’t need special glasses, just eyes wide open! I think perhaps that may be true if we humans as well.

       What is your essence?  This seems like a excellent starting point for a Lenten meditation of your own. Pray on it. Ponder that question. What is your essence?