#163 Awakening in His Likeness
द्वारा Jonathan S. Rose
Title: Awakening in His Likeness
Topic: Salvation
Summary: We look at the image and likeness of God, and ponder whether there are ways to grow in that image and likeness.
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References:
Genesis 1:26-27; 5:1-3
Psalms 18:25-26
2 Samuel 22:26
Matthew 5:8, 7
Genesis 1:26
Psalms 17:15, 1-15
Arcana Coelestia #9546
9546. 'Towards My faces unceasingly' means the Lord's presence thereby with peace and heavenly joy flowing from His mercy. This is clear from the meaning of Jehovah's or the Lord's 'faces' as all the blessings attributable to Divine Love or to mercy, such as innocence, peace, or joy, thus heaven itself with those who receive them. For when the word 'faces' refers to people on earth and angels in heaven it means interior things, which are attributes of the will and consequently of the understanding, and so which are attributes of love and consequently of faith, see 1999, 2434, 3527, 3573, 4066, 4796, 4798, 5102, 5165, 5168, 5585, 5592, 6604, 6848, 6849, 9306; and from this it may be recognized that when the word 'faces' refers to Jehovah or the Lord it means those things which are the attributes of Divine Love or of mercy, thus all celestial good, 222, 223, 5585, 9306.