The Sun of Righteousness
Just as when these clouds surround the sun, instead of blocking it out, add to its beauty, so when the clouds of sin surround the Sun of Righteousness at Calvalry, His glory is made even more manifest. All things work for the greater glory of God!
posted by Henry Karlson @ 7:24 AM
4 Comments:
At 2/22/2009 12:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
dude,
Wait....having a "zippy" moment....
...arghh.......
that's heresy. You're saying sin is necessary for divine beauty....
heresy. You're a heretic; heresy, heresy, heresy......
WAIT..."zippy" moment beginning to subside.....
OK!....... now it's gone.
Great post. sorry about that "zippy" moment; for a second there, I was compelled out of fear to read your comment in the worst light possible. Shame on me.
It's really a beautiful insight.
Thanks for the post. (guess who...)
At 2/22/2009 2:20 PM,
Henry Karlson said…
I expect Zippy will respond to you later -- he has a tendency to keep coming back, and never relent. But maybe you have him had, asking him to actually define the heresy!
If I were a poet, I would have written a poem to say what I said, but I thought the picture is poetry enough!
At 2/27/2009 2:53 PM,
Matt Talbot said…
Henry - not sure if this is related, but I find that God is most visible to me when I see Him working in the lives of me and my fellow sinners - for example, in an AA meeting, when someone is giving a talk about their drinking days and how they found sobriety, I can see the action of God's grace clearly.
At 2/28/2009 3:17 AM,
Henry Karlson said…
Matt
It's related -- of course, one must not use it to say, we must sin to make God's glory known, but rather, God can always add to what we do to make his glory that much greater --- when I wrote this, I had the opening of Tolkien's Silmarillion in mind, where I think Tolkien beautifully put the idea forward via music: the angelic choirs found the beauty of their original music increased as Eru (God) brought the discord Melkor (Satan) into it.
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