- Shine Face
Psalm 119:135
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;
And teach me thy statutes.
The Lord promises to make His face shine upon us; that is how He blesses us. It is thus blessed and promised to us in the familiar Aaronic Benediction: “…The Lord make his face shine upon thee…” What is a shining face? It is a beautiful and poetic way of saying He is thinking good thoughts of you and intending kind actions toward you. It is a way of saying God is making His presence known to you in order to bless you and answer your prayers.
Faces shine when they are smiling with the eyes and grinning from ear to ear. It shows that a person is happy; but more than that: with the word “upon” it means that the Lord is happy with you (well pleased). Nothing is our world could make us happier than to know that God the Almighty is happy with us. The Father is happy on the one hand because when He looks upon us He sees His Son Jesus; the Father is happy with us in the second place because He actually sees us reflecting His image as the Holy Spirit recreates it brighter and brighter in us.
We may be deceived by selfishness into thinking that other people, places, and things will make me happy, but down deep we know that we are really happiest when we make other people happy. For example, it is pleasant when we smile at someone and they smile back; that makes all happy. It is most pleasing when God makes His face shine, or smiles upon us, and we smile back. When we repent and believe the Gospel we make God most happy.