Let Us See You

Almighty God, we need to see you today.

I heard people say last night that they know you are real, but they can’t see your face and they can’t see your hand.

We need to see just a glimpse of you today. We need to see your face. It is your face which shines favor on us. It is your favor that gives us hope.

Today, Almighty God, reveal yourself to us. Open our eyes wide so that we might see you. Open our hearts even wider that we might recognize you. We don’t sometimes. We look for you and do not see you because of our preconceived ideas of who you are and what you look like. We have been trained to see you in the familiar and that is good, but teach us to see you in the unfamiliar, in the foreign.

Almighty God, if we see you then we see the world differently. If we really see you then we see our neighbor from a different perspective. And if we see from your perspective then our hearts can be changed—transformed.

Almighty God, reveal yourself to us today. Protect us as you did Moses. Hide us in the cleft of the rock if you must.  But let us see you.

Amen