Masters of the Way of Jesus have long called this “contemplation.” The word contemplation means different things to different people at different times in church history, but at its most basic, it just means looking at God, looking at you, in love. The word contemplation comes straight out of the New Testament itself, from a key passage in Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians: We all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory.[33] The Greek word for “contemplate” here is katoptrizō, and it means to “gaze or behold.”
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