Continuing the theme of our thoughts, this chapter addresses the way in which the images we hold in our mind can impact us. Oftentimes that is positive and it could be negative as well.
At one point I was pastor in a church with a series of stain glass windows that told the story of Jesus from the Old Testament to His resurrection. Images/symbols with meaning. However, in a world of purposes defeated, many parishioners began to ask questions about the symbols on the windows. Symbols represent something, but if that something is unknown to you, what’s the use? I preached a sermon series on each window.
A useless image, how tragic. Maybe even worse is a wrong image of God we have gathered over the years.
The author asks a great question: What comes to mind when you think if God? Or finish the sentence “God is the kind of being who…” Some examination about our view of God helps us frame our history and reactions we’ve had and then making some observations based on what God has revealed about Himself.
Some images are worth gathering!! God singing a song over us: Zephaniah 3:17, God protecting us under His wings, God being a fortress or a refuge. He’s a root, a rock, a rose. He is the way, the truth and the life. He’s the bread of life, the water of life. He’s a rock, He’s the stone rejected by builders,He’s the cornerstone, He’s a stumbling stone, and if your wise He’s the stone upon which the wise person builds there life.
There are images that are of great importance to building our life!! May we gather and discard these images that dwell in us and see what God continues to bring in us and out from us!!
Truth, Grace, and Time 