"In Bruges"

Judas left to go to the Jewish leaders. He was going to betray Jesus. Jesus knew what was going to happen and his comment was "Now the Son of Man has been glorified". He knew that the next step would be a mock trial culminating his cries for his blood. Cries that would be conceded to by the Roman authorities. Crucifixion  would be the result. Crucifixion, the lowest of the low in methods of capital punishment was good enough for our God.
Four letter words, colloquial language for excretion keep coming to mind. It happens. Jesus saw the whole picture and was able to see that the end was Glory to God. We only see a small fraction of the picture.

Yesterday we went to Bruges, saw a few Old Masters. We did not see them as the artist saw them. The paintings had experienced the effects of life. We do not see our life in the same way as our Creator does. He sees the whole picture in all its newly painted glory.


Picture
Crucifixion (1626); Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Brugge, Belgium
Anthony van Dyck 


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