Michael Card - A Face That Shone lyrics

He ate the bread of heaven Drank water from the rock And the grumbling children followed Like a misbegotten flock He climbed up on a mountain They couldn't even touch Who'd have known that one encounter Could have ever meant so much And up upon that high place In a cleft of solid stone His face was set on fire As the God of Glory shone He alone had seen it And had lived to tell the tale But because they feared the fire He had to hide behind a veil A face that shone with the radiance of the Father Though it had known and endured dark desert days A face that shone with the glory of Another So the prophet would discover As the glory was fading away He was the Bread from Heaven He would be the smitten Rock He had twelve confused disciples They were his bewildered flock When he climbed upon the mountain He took Peter, James and John In the face of pending glory They soon began to yawn As he prayed while they were sleeping He was transfigured into Light His face a flash of lightning His clothes so burning bright So Moses finally saw the face Before he'd hidden from Then came a voice from heaven This is my beloved Son The face that shone is the Glory of the Father And he had known from the start that it was so The face that shone had let the light shine out of darkness And we're changed into His likeness As we gaze upon the Son But you and me we tend to flee from shining faces We see the glow and then we know that we're undone They shine His light into out emptiest of spaces With their bright and shining faces Reflect the radiance of the Son The face that shone is the Glory of the Father And he had known from the start that it was so The face that shone had let the light shine out of darkness And we're changed into His likeness As we gaze upon the Son