God has called His saints to be a shining city set on a hill. We are to be salt (healing) and light (direction) to those around us. They should find glorious delight in being in our presence because of the glory cloud we live under. It was the glory cloud by day and the fiery cloud by night that set Israel apart as they traveled to the Promise Land. Their enemies were terrified by this glorious overshadowing of the camp of Israel. Everything in that camp was a type of the New Testament church and the Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ. If they had His presence, then we should be overwhelmed by His glory.

The Apostle Paul spoke of this glory as changing from "glory to glory." Look at his word from the Holy Scripture. "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:17-18) This glory is explained as always becoming more glorious as we behold the Lord and follow after Him. His reflection is to be seen in us.

Jesus spoke of something similar when He declared His purpose to the Jews at the "Feast of Tabernacles" in Jerusalem. His words were, "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" (John 7:37-39)

Let's get back to those shining faces and rivers of living water. Your world will be turned upside down and the world of your acquaintances will be divinely affected. We will win souls when our faces are lit with His glory.