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"I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered." - Forest Whitaker - American Actor
The Bible talks about God's mysteries, not as things He wants to withhold from us, but things He chooses to UNVEIL at the proper time. . . There's an old proverb, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." It amazes me how long it takes for me to be ready for an unveiling of a new truth. To UNVEIL means to remove a veil or covering from, to uncover as part of a public ceremony; to show or announce publicly for the first time. The word VEIL has many meanings: a piece of material worn by women to protect or conceal the face (above); or in Jewish antiquity it was the precious cloth that separated the sanctuary from the body of the Temple or the Tabernacle. Figuratively a VEIL is a thing that conceals, disguises, or obscures something. To unveil means to remove what conceals, disguises, or obscures.
The best modern example of unveiling that I've seen is found in the movie The Matrix. The prophetic mentor Morpheus initiates his protege Neo into his new life path as the chosen one. For Neo to assume this role, he has to know the truth of the systems of the Matrix, where what you see isn't really all there is, and sometimes what you see isn't even what you're looking at. Morpheus offers Neo the choice to stay in bliss of ignorance or allow what's behind the curtain to be unveiled. "You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." Neo takes the red pill and is shown all kinds of unbelievable and previously hidden things about the world he lives. In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul describes a similar unveiling, to see the glorious Truth of God's original intent when a person comes to the new way of faith in Christ, and is no longer bound to following the precepts of the law of Moses:
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12Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold. 13We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away. 14But the people's minds were hardened, and to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, the same veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ. 15Yes, even today when they read Moses' writings, their hearts are covered with that veil, and they do not understand. 16But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord-who is the Spirit-makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
Jesus said, "You will know the truth and the truth will make you free." (John 8:32) You can't be freed by a truth you don't know. It might be glorious, or daunting, but at one point or another, we all chose a pill. Which one will it be? |
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