guilty. I’m a designer, a spinster, a pretty package maker.
Acts 17:29
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.
It’s funny to me the business I’m in. I design impressions of God. Impressions of his church. Impressions of who I think Christ to be.
And yet he’s undesignable.
It’s impossible for me to get out my designer toolbox and design God in an image that would make Him say, “That’s me. You nailed it. My justice looks like that. My love looks like that. My pain looks like that. My hope looks like that.”
I’m struck right now knowing that Islam creates no images of Allah. They refrain from attempts to paint God in a human frame. They refrain from painting a picture of God that God wouldn’t make of himself.
And so the only true reflection of God’s design is to look at God’s creation and see it for his beauty. See it for the reflection of himself that it is. in it’s diversity, creativity, intelligence, inter-connectedness, passion.
God is a designer. Me too (though I’m far less talented).
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what if people are the design that god chose for the world to see him… could you do something with that as a designer jeremy?