Beholding the Glory of God

The "beholding and becoming" principle is the process by which believers are transformed into the image of Jesus [2 Cor. 3:18].  Beholding the Lord means to study His heart until we understand it more and thus encounter Him.  Paul prayed in Eph. 3 that we might be transformed by encountering the height of God's beauty and affection for us.  When we feel His affection for us, it impacts our hearts in significant ways.  Feeling God's affection brings pleasure and exhilaration to our hearts. Feeling God's affection equips us for our full destiny by anchoring our soul in God.  Feeling God's affection gives us confidence in His grace so that we run TO God instead of AWAY from Him when faced with our sin and weakness.  Experiencing God's love makes us ravenously hungry for more so that we go hard after His heart to experience more of His love - and in the process are changed into His very image.  We truly become what we behold, "from glory to glory," experiencing the transforming power of His unchanging love. Beholding His glory, we are little by little changed into that very same glory.