Risen Indeed
Here is my newest artwork - yet another
sculptural, mixed-media assemblage, this one called TABERNACLE (17 ½” x
10 ½” x 4”). Completed as Easter approaches, this piece is a metaphor - a
symbol of a holy chamber, even of my soul. A receptacle for meditation. A dwelling
place. More specifically, a meeting place for time with God to prayerfully surrender
to and embrace Jesus Resurrected. And here too are some additional thoughts.
From
Philippians 3: 10-11 - I want to
know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in
his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to
the resurrection from the dead.
From
Timothy Keller: If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all
that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what
he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his
teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
From
C.S. Lewis, in God in the Dock, chapter 19: ‘What are we to make of
Christ?’ There is no question of what we can make of Him, it is entirely a
question of what He intends to make of us. You must accept or reject the story.”
From
Lee Strobel:…I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling
that Jesus really is the one-and-only Son of God who proved his divinity by
rising from the dead. That meant following him was the most rational and
logical step I could possibly take.
From C.S. Lewis, in the final paragraph of Mere
Christianity …Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about
originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth
(without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine
times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle
runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find
your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of
your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in
the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.
Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really
yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look
for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness,
despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and
with Him, everything else thrown in.
