Keep Him In Your Heart

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.  Leviticus 26:1

The Law! We naturally recoil a bit from it as there is a lot of it in the Bible and the penalties are to our eyes quite severe. From this command we also have no images of our Lord Jesus to use in making a statue. "But wait," the stranger from a foreign land asks, "aren't there rather a lot of images of Jesus in a great many forms in your land?" Well, we must admit that there are, but can we know that any are accurate to His face as He walked the land of Galilee in about 30 AD? If one reads the prophecy of Isaiah at about chapter 53, then the images tend to be too beautiful for that description. So, for us there is no bowing down to carved rocks or pretty paintings, but we keep the Lord Jesus in our respective and respectful hearts. Faith, after all, does not need a graven image, especially when it is unlikely to be a true representation. 

Have a faithful day in Christ Jesus, and keep Him in your heart!

Bucky