Not our own

After Genesis 1:26-27 and Psalm 8 

We are not our own,

separate from all else,

our own reality. We are

made in an image

of the Creator, the one who

envisioned us, made us, 

designed us, planned us,

guided us, even in a world

broken. We are made 

in an image to rule by and

for, not instead of or in

the place of, trending into

tyranny without the hand

that fashioned us. We are

made in glory, we are

crowned with honor, we are

created to belong to him. 

A thing of beauty, we are

a joy forever. And we are

twice his: he made us;

he redeemed us.

 

Photograph by Ken Cheung via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

A Prayer for My 15-Year-Old, Who is Set Apart – Jacob Stratman at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

 

Evensong – poem by Jeffrey Essmann at Society of Classical Poets.

 

Who Wrote the Gospels? – Timothy Paul Jones at Southern Seminary.

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.