This reading from John Eldridge’s Restoration Year inspires my creativity. It reminds me of the meaning behind art and beauty, it draws people to God…
“Walk out into the fields and look at the wild flowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it?” Matthew 6:28 MSG
t’s easy to hide behind reason and logic. But friend, you must grow beyond mere reason, or you’ll be stunted on your jour-ney, certainly in the way you love. No one wants to be analyzed, and many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved. Jesus could hold his own in any theological debate, but he’s also an artist (the Creator of this world of beauty) and a poet, and a storyteller. When he says, “Consider the lilies of the field,” he does not mean analyze them, but rather behold them, let their beauty speak. He appeals to their beauty to show us the love of God.
You’re awakened when you see that beauty is far truer than the propositional and the analytical.
I came to Christ not because I was looking for a religion, but because I was looking for the truth. I yearned for an intellectually defensible case for Christianity, and I found it. My head was sat-isfied, but my heart yearned for something more. While I found logic in my theology, I was being wooed by beauty in the mountains and deserts, in literature and music. Why did they bring me closer to God than analysis? They speak to the heart.
What are you using these days (besides this devotional) to nourish and strengthen your faith?
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