The image

After Genesis 1:26-27 and Psalm 8 

The image is not the reality,

the substance, but a picture,

a sketch, a drawing,

a representation of the real,

the substantive. The image

is tied to the reality it

represents, even thought it

may be separate and apart,

independent except that

without the reality it

represents, it becomes

meaningless, lost, trying

to recreate by itself what

it is derived from, what

it pictures, what it represents,

as in the image of God.

 

Photograph by Markus Spiske via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” poem by Emily Dickinson – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

‘Of the Civil Magistrate’: How the Presbyterians Shifted on Church-State Relations – Kevin DeYoung at The Gospel Coalition.

 

My $7 Reading Summer – Mark Collins at Story Warren.