We are meant to ever have before our eyes this expression of God’s unending love for us. For Jesus also said to St. Faustina: My gaze from this image is the same, as [My] gaze from the cross (326), that is, full of goodness, compassion, forgiveness and assurance for those “looking on” [contemplating] the One they brought to death by their sins. Believers are thus directed to the beautiful words of Psalm 17:15: “As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.” This wondrous expectation extends beyond the end of time and out into eternity. We shall fall asleep in death, but one day we shall awake and when we awake, we will be satisfied. “On that day we shall see you, our God, as you are. We shall become like you ... through Christ Our Lord” (Eucharistic Prayer III). As we behold Him, we become what we were created to be. God is infinite; therefore, growing in His image and glory has no limits “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor 3:18). The one who trusts in the Lord without reserve, knows His genuine love for us. For He has laid down His life for us, and through His rising again from the dead, assures us of our own resurrection, and fills us with joy knowing that “we will be satisfied.” For there’s nothing else that can fully satisfy the human heart but God Himself. At this time in this life, we have contact with God. We know Him, we serve Him, we do His will. But there are gaps in our knowledge, there’s a veil in between, we are still creatures of flesh. Our ideas and concepts are so limited and inadequate to apprehend 21
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