Thursday, June 22, 2017

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“If”

“Yea, He is altogether lovely” (Song of Solomon 5:16).

“If I loved Him more I should paint Him better.” So said a great artist to a visitor in his studio.

She was looking upon one of his paintings in which he had attempted to portray the face of our Savior. Earnestly he looked at his visitor’s face to see what effect the canvas produced upon her. She admired it, and then it was that the artist repeated the words, “If I loved Him more I should paint Him better.”

No human artist can rightly picture Christ’s fair face and form. The Bible declares: “Thou art fairer than the children of men” (Psalm 45:2). No, not on canvas, by pencil nor by brush, can Christ be depicted. But upon the hearts and in the lives of His people, the Spirit of God is presenting something of the grace and beauty of the Lord Jesus.

And may we not each say that “If I loved Him more, I should express Him better”? Would it not be so that if we were more constantly in His presence, more devoted in heart to Him, more faithful to His interests here, we should paint His features more truly in our lives?

 

             
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