Jesus, the One seated on the Throne right now, once died on the cross and through His blood made us righteous and holy. He transformed sinners into the image of His Father. He changed sinners into holy sons of God.
We do pray without ceasing as we cherish our relationship with Him all the time, every day, not as a religious practice, but as our life style.
Sons and daughters, please, do not make a face full of blood and a head wearing a crown of thorns of someone who could not even close illustrate Jesus. Please, don't make a time event to be transformed into a perennial representation of Jesus. Don't freeze history. Don't freeze the revelation of God into pieces. In His face there is no blood anymore! Please don't crucify Jesus again!
This picture may seem to represent Jesus, but this is not even a Biblical representation of Him.
Jesus is not a baby! Don't hang a picture on your walls of a baby "Jesus"!
Don't hang on your walls a crucifix with a dead body and call that "Jesus"!
Please do not make the face of Jesus like a white European or American deity. That is not even close Jesus who lives forever and ever! Billions of different alive faces would represent Him much better,but even so, don't freeze a face and call it Jesus. Jesus is beautiful beyond description! Jesus is alive and well! He was raised from the dead. Jesus is so full of Life. Draw an empty tomb, but please don't show any body!
Do you want to draw a picture of Him? Do you want to make a sculpture of Him?
Try one that could come close to this following description! I could not find yet an artist who had the inspiration to make these words real!
“Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
"I am the Alpha (Aleph) and the Omega (Tav)," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day (not Sunday, of course not) and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow.
His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.
But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.” Revelation 1:5-6, 8, 10, 12-18 ESV
Please, read this again. And look at the pictures and representations of Jesus you have seen to check if there is a match! Of course, there is not! All of them can become idols if we petrify them as the ultimate representation of the Lord.
Don't be offended! Don't look into man made pictures to contact Jesus. Do what the psalmist did.
“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Psalms 121:1-2 ESV
Jesus doesn't wear a crown anymore. Not with thorns. Are you kidding me?
It's true that so many people in the whole world who thing that the pictures that they have which seems to remind them about what Jesus did,are using the same pictures as the true representation of Jesus Christ.bu from what we are touht here, and from what we can read in Revelation 1:5-6, 8, 10, 12-18 ESV we can not see or get teh right image that can represent our glorious Jesus.
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