“And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.” When this took place there was no change in God: there could be none in Him; and man was unchanged, too. God was what He had always been; the enmity of man’s heart was the same as ever; but by the cross the work had been effected, through which God could look with complacency on man, in himself unchanged. Not only was there atonement, but reconciliation.
We are reconciled now; everything in heaven and earth will be reconciled in the future. The effects of the cross will be known in the new heavens and the new earth, where pain, suffering, and sorrow will be banished forever, and the strong hand which now moves the springs of wickedness shall be paralyzed forever.
It is important for us, as Christians, to remember that the rending of the veil has left us, as men, unchanged. We must be real before God. In His presence there can be no sanctimoniousness, no effort. The secret of power is just to hold ourselves in nothingness, and to allow God to be manifested. Moses’ face shone from no effort on his part, but because he was near God. In the transfiguration there was nothing of what men would call power, but there was the outshining of God.
We have only to be what we are; to let God come out, holding self as nothing.