“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:10
In the foyer of my church, tucked into a corner, is a life-sized Nathan Greene painting of Jesus. It’s beautiful and very touching, but something about it bothers me. Well, I guess it’s actually not it that bothers me; it’s me, and all the rest of my church family.
You see, I don’t think anyone ever looks at that painting. Jesus’ face is quite a bit above eye level, because of where the painting is set on the wall. Even His gentle hands, reaching out to you, are slightly above eye level for a moderately-sized person like me. So then, we just walk by, looking where we want to go in a hurry, looking at a person we’re talking to, looking, looking, anywhere but up, to the only One that really counts.
I wonder, if every single person who walked by that painting would pause for a moment and actually look up at Jesus, would it make a difference in our church, our lives, our world?
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
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