On this mountain He will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations. He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces; the reproach of His people He will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 25:7-8
Oh, how I long for this. How I long for the veil to be lifted from the eyes of those who can’t see. Lift the veil from us, O Lord, so we may see the Kingdom that awaits. When we see clearly, we live without fear. We live in jubilation for we understand that this world, as wonderful as it may be, is only temporary. It’s not our future, and it is certainly not our forever.
I still struggle with this, and I expect that I will forever struggle with this. The world is not my future. It is not your future, but the devil is certainly good at making us believe it is. “This is it” he whispers.
And our minds are prone to believing him because we are easily, so easily, manipulated. Everything we see online, everything we see in the news…the celebrities, and the influencers, the propaganda…it’s all designed to keep us here; to keep us stuck, to keep us from participating in the sanctification of our souls; to keep us from accepting with full knowledge of body and mind what our soul already knows: that this isn’t all there is.
The sumptuousness of the modern world and the distractions are all carefully crafted to keep us from turning our gaze towards the Heavens. And my word! It is effective.
There are times where I too am prone to temptation, where I fall, because the sumptuousness is too good to miss out on. There’s times when I get sucked back into the worldliness and turn my gaze from the Lord.
But as Isaiah reminds us, the veil will someday be lifted. We will see clearly, and when we do, we will be so ashamed we didn’t believe it before then.
When that happens, I implore you to remember that these blinders…they’re not your fault. We are continually manipulated. We are continually coerced into thinking that this is all there is. The material is all that matters. There is no afterlife, there is no God, so we might as well live for ourselves, and put our egos on full display while satisfying every egocentric desire.
Our feeble and flawed mortal minds are being used against us constantly and in ways too varied to enumerate. It takes an extraordinary act of divine intervention to lift the veil and begin to see the divinity around us and the divinity that awaits us.