No Graven Image!
Sorry if you have been visiting our Blog lately simply to find that it has not had any new updates for a while now. No excuses we have simply been off fighting battles on other fronts, or perhaps more truthfully keeping our collective butt out of view of the enemy, and trusting God to do the fighting. Truly our life lately, like many of our friends across the world, has been like doing a route march across a never-ending “bouncy castle”. Anyway Iris and I hope, after receiving some encouragement from some dear friends, that we are now back on track once more.
I was sitting the other day just having one of those “blank screen” moments when there is nothing particular showing on that big screen in your head. You don’t have one, well you should get one straight away, its quite often referred to as vision. Well to get back to what I was saying, there I was with my blank screen, when all of a sudden, I was in the middle of a life sculpture class. There were lots of pieces of marble on stands with a white sheet around them. There was lots of activity and noise as each piece of marble was being chipped away by someone inside the sheet.
Somehow I instinctively knew that they were not using the traditional tools of mallets and chisels, but rather every word they spoke, every action they took , even the very thought life of each person removed and shaped their piece of marble. I looked at the front of the class to see the model and quietly sitting there, to my astonishment, was Jesus. I realised this was indeed truly a LIFE class.
Suddenly there was a loud voice which boomed throughout the whole place, “Times up, remove the sheets”. Angels appeared from above each piece of work and lifted off the white sheets. There were several astonished gasps from several areas across the room, as the completed works were revealed to everyone. But the gasps came from those standing in front of their own life’s work, not from those around, because as they now got to see the finished article. Quite a few of the pieces did not reveal a true likeness of Jesus but instead looked more like the person standing in front of them.
To my shock I recognised, some of those standing around, people with ministries, big ministries, and as I looked I felt so sad not angry or judgemental just sad. I didn’t get to look at my piece of marble, but believe me the whole experience has truly challenged me. What about you.
From the message: (Exo 20:4)
No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim.
I was sitting the other day just having one of those “blank screen” moments when there is nothing particular showing on that big screen in your head. You don’t have one, well you should get one straight away, its quite often referred to as vision. Well to get back to what I was saying, there I was with my blank screen, when all of a sudden, I was in the middle of a life sculpture class. There were lots of pieces of marble on stands with a white sheet around them. There was lots of activity and noise as each piece of marble was being chipped away by someone inside the sheet.
Somehow I instinctively knew that they were not using the traditional tools of mallets and chisels, but rather every word they spoke, every action they took , even the very thought life of each person removed and shaped their piece of marble. I looked at the front of the class to see the model and quietly sitting there, to my astonishment, was Jesus. I realised this was indeed truly a LIFE class.
Suddenly there was a loud voice which boomed throughout the whole place, “Times up, remove the sheets”. Angels appeared from above each piece of work and lifted off the white sheets. There were several astonished gasps from several areas across the room, as the completed works were revealed to everyone. But the gasps came from those standing in front of their own life’s work, not from those around, because as they now got to see the finished article. Quite a few of the pieces did not reveal a true likeness of Jesus but instead looked more like the person standing in front of them.
To my shock I recognised, some of those standing around, people with ministries, big ministries, and as I looked I felt so sad not angry or judgemental just sad. I didn’t get to look at my piece of marble, but believe me the whole experience has truly challenged me. What about you.
From the message: (Exo 20:4)
No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim.
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