My degree is in art history. I always thought that the stone images of gods from the stone age all the way to modern times-primitive tribal art- were quaint, but really gave no more thought to them. Maybe a study of the form, or how the artist and the style merged to create that piece of art.
Then, well, this relationship that I am - or God is- developing in me, speaks of intimacy that far outstrips the feelings of a dead piece of stone, wood or plastic, or metal. Of course those "gods" survive in the present in the form of plastics (credit cards), wood (household furnishings), stone,( representing buildings, homes) metal (cars). All things that the true God has made, so why not seek a true relationship with Him?
Any relationship takes so much to develop. Time, patience, feelings, emotions are involved with every relationship. He doesn't expect perfection, that is what He sent Jesus for. We, we get the benefit of that relationship that Jesus has with his Father. To believe in Jesus, God, and the Spirit, well it is like being adopted by the most loving, forgiving family that could ever be. But it is a relationship, you have to be honest, true and caring with God, so that you get the benefit that God wants to give to the relationship.
Much more than a stone sculpture from the past. Much more than the empty pursuit of chasing after material things.
Then, well, this relationship that I am - or God is- developing in me, speaks of intimacy that far outstrips the feelings of a dead piece of stone, wood or plastic, or metal. Of course those "gods" survive in the present in the form of plastics (credit cards), wood (household furnishings), stone,( representing buildings, homes) metal (cars). All things that the true God has made, so why not seek a true relationship with Him?
Any relationship takes so much to develop. Time, patience, feelings, emotions are involved with every relationship. He doesn't expect perfection, that is what He sent Jesus for. We, we get the benefit of that relationship that Jesus has with his Father. To believe in Jesus, God, and the Spirit, well it is like being adopted by the most loving, forgiving family that could ever be. But it is a relationship, you have to be honest, true and caring with God, so that you get the benefit that God wants to give to the relationship.
Much more than a stone sculpture from the past. Much more than the empty pursuit of chasing after material things.
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