This was an opposite response to the image that greeted us all here. Gone were the feathers and cute overload, replaced with stark reality of death and slaughter.
Yet both were on WordLive and both were related to the themes in our Bible reading for the day.
Contradictions?
Have you heard people say they don’t believe what the Bible says because it is full of contradictions? Well I suppose that is one way of looking at it. The other way is to say it is full of extremes and expanses; different colours that paint a picture.
- Sin - forgiveness
- Almighty God - baby Jesus
- Victory - the cross
- Heaven - earth
- Death - resurrection
Although the picture can never be complete, the sketch it gives is enough for us to catch a glimpse of the divine.
But you can’t contain God in a book, or even a library.
Living the paradox?
From a personal point of view I enjoy the extremes. I wallow in the breadth of my faith. The Bible is full of seeming opposites that I hold onto. As such my relationship with God grows. It is dynamic. Not always moving in the ‘right’ direction. But a relationship spiral is better than a stagnated relationship.
Yesterday gave us a lovely image to hold onto. Previously some images have been a little harder to deal with. Tomorrow? Who knows what our relationship with God will bring.
Darren
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