“Words of Thought”
September 14, 2024

And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and
Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus 34:35 KJV

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 3:18 KJV

J.R. Miller wrote the following:

All true prayer has a transfiguring influence. It brings us into the immediate presence of
God. The holy of holies in the ancient temple, where the Shekinah was, was no holier
than where you bow every time you pray. You are looking up into the face of Christ
Himself. John was not nearer to Him, lying on His breast, than you are in your prayers.
One cannot thus look up into the face of Christ and not have some measure of
transfiguration wrought in him.

Then prayer is the reaching up of the soul toward God. It lifts the face for the time into
the highest, holiest frame. A prayerful spirit is full of aspirations for God. Its longings are
pressing up Godward. No mood of spiritual life is more blessed than longing. It is God in
the soul kindling its desires and yearnings for righteousness and holiness. It is the
transfiguring of the spirit which purifies these dull earthly lives of ours, and changes
them, little by little, into the divine image.

May these “Words of Thought” be a blessing unto you.
Troy Chandler
Chaplain, Army of Trans-Mississippi