Your post reminds me of the natural revelation described in Romans 1:19-21. God has revealed himself in creation through natural revelation yet we require the special revelation of Jesus Christ found in scripture to rightly understand what God has revealed through creation. That being said when Christians observe the world through the lens of Scripture Gods magnificent glory shines forth.
Exactly, Jacob. Your added insight brings to mind the Scripture, “In His light do we see light.” It also reminds me of C.S. Lewis’s analogy, “I don’t believe in the sun because I see the sun, but because by it I see everything else.” To have eyes to see is to look with eyes of faith at Christ, by means of Christ, through Christ, with Christ.
Well said, brother. I love how Christ spoke to our humanity. What better way to communicate our daily need for Him than by making it clear that without living water our souls will pant with thirst, and without the daily bread of life our sprits will starve? Such a wonder just how much our existence points to God if we have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
Exactly! He creates the physical need in our biological wiring--our thirst and hunger--and then points to that physical need to express a deeper spiritual one. That's how we know that physical things are symbols, because the physical world is our window into the spiritual.
Your post reminds me of the natural revelation described in Romans 1:19-21. God has revealed himself in creation through natural revelation yet we require the special revelation of Jesus Christ found in scripture to rightly understand what God has revealed through creation. That being said when Christians observe the world through the lens of Scripture Gods magnificent glory shines forth.
Exactly, Jacob. Your added insight brings to mind the Scripture, “In His light do we see light.” It also reminds me of C.S. Lewis’s analogy, “I don’t believe in the sun because I see the sun, but because by it I see everything else.” To have eyes to see is to look with eyes of faith at Christ, by means of Christ, through Christ, with Christ.
‘Of Love’s disfiguration
Till we look through the scars’
Well said, brother. I love how Christ spoke to our humanity. What better way to communicate our daily need for Him than by making it clear that without living water our souls will pant with thirst, and without the daily bread of life our sprits will starve? Such a wonder just how much our existence points to God if we have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
Exactly! He creates the physical need in our biological wiring--our thirst and hunger--and then points to that physical need to express a deeper spiritual one. That's how we know that physical things are symbols, because the physical world is our window into the spiritual.