2 Corinthians 3:15-18. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

….but whenever….turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.  In this statement of the apostle Paul, there is nothing to indicate who or what turns to the Lord. Some translations insert ‘it’, meaning the heart; some say ‘a person’. We do know that only beings made in the image of God can realize the person of God so it is quite legitimate to state ‘….but whenever a believer in the Lord or a community of believers turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away’.

This is in fact implied by what Paul writes next. It is the divine Person of the Holy Spirit who removes the veil that lies over our heart and sets us free to behold the glory of God and thereby to be transformed into the image of the Lord Jesus. We who believe need to remain in a constant state of surrender to the will of God so that the Holy Spirit may take the veil away, that we may behold the beauty of Jesus and live continually in His presence. The well-known chorus of a hymn puts it so well.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face;
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.

The lure and attraction of this world’s fashions with their cultural expectations will fade away as we fill our vision with Jesus. The love that will burn in our heart for Him will remove all the dross of sin and self-will and we shall know and experience what it means to be citizens and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven.

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