In the beginning God made man in His own image, so close is grandeur to our dust. Before the beginning of the Christian era, minds like Plato’s felt that man was made to be intimate with God. But Jesus revealed a move from the other side. He expressed God’s great desire to be intimate with man, to enter into the life of man and transform his world from within. The Old Testament celebrates the glory of creation when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The New Testament heralds the music of an infinitely sweeter song: “There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.” The glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ is the glory of His entrance into our nature, His revelation of the potential of human life. “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.” The vessel is of earth, but through it, God sheds forth His own exceeding glory.—John Macbeath, The Face of Christ