God's Revealed Majesty

So, I’m sitting in my room, looking at my walls, and my eyes fall upon some artwork I have up. They are from a street spray paint artist I love in Mexico City, who just layers on the colors, squiggles around bits of paper, and creates these unbelievable pieces of art. I have a couple of different landscapes, with trees, mountains, lakes, waterfalls, birds, clouds and sunsets. All incredibly beautiful (to me anyways). However, what makes it so is that it is a representation of something God created, and in which his glory, majesty, power, grace, and beauty can be seen. Obviously these aren’t mountains and scenes that have been directly copied, but all the elements can be seen in nature.

A great picture of this can be found in the Robin Williams movie What Dreams May Come. It’s about heaven, and is at times really theologically wacked out. But this one scene, right when Robin first arrives in heaven, is so great. He loved oil paintings, especially his wife’s, during his days on earth. When he gets to heaven, the entire place is literally made out of paint. The water, the plants, the house, all of it. But as he comes to grips with death and heaven, it all suddenly becomes real, not just paint, and it literally stops your heart it is so breathtaking. That is the difference between our best efforts and what God can do. Not only is anything beautiful we create an extension of what he has already done in the first place, but it isn’t really even worth comparing our pictures to his creation.

In the end, as so often is the case, the Bible says it best. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:19.

Amen