Life Without a Veil Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Life Without a Veil -------------------------------- Date: 12/5/2002 Keywords: “transparency" "veil” Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 2 Corinthians 3:18* 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. Questions 1. Into what image are Christians being transformed?   2. According to this verse, what must be true about our faces if we wish to be transformed?   Practical help We hear the word "veil" and think Taliban, Halloween, or blushing bride. Paul uses the image of a veil to communicate the idea of faking it, pretending, concealing. The daily temptation of the Christian is to put the veil back on that was ripped away at the moment of salvation. When you came to Christ, you admitted — in some way — that you couldn't make it on your own, that your resources were inadequate, that what God required (righteousness) He had to provide — or you were sunk! (By the way, if you have never come to Christ for salvation, click here.) The enemy's lie is that now, in order to be accepted, we must be (or at least appear) capable and successful. If we are good Christians, we ought to be adequate! Not true! Ironically, adequacy, the ability to lead a God-honoring life, comes when we admit inadequacy. Jesus wants you and me to continue on the track we began when we trusted Christ in the first place! If we will admit our inadequacy, we can have God's adequacy, given at the point of our need. God is interested in our personal metamorphosis into the image of Jesus. That process of change will occur only when we are living transparently. Want to fight porn addition with weapons from the Christian arsenal? Try the weapon of transparency. Admit that you've got a problem with Internet porn. Admit it to God, to yourself, and to a trusted friend or two. When you stop pretending that you are better off than you really are (Paul calls it 'taking off the veil') God powerfully moves in to work genuine transformation. What is the need of the hour? Stop faking it — and rip off the veil! eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission." --