What if the Bible is an "artist's palette" rather than a "finished painting?"
What if one of our callings here is to hone and develop an artist's loving eye with regard to reading the truths of Scripture?
What if our gut is that loving eye, our heart the tender brush, and our mind the conceptual canvass on which we paint our own inner image of God?
What if this Biblical palette, this Christological coat of many colors, contains all the dyes and pigments we need to paint a vibrant image of a fearlessly living and flawlessly loving God?
What if these Biblical hues MUST first be removed from their concentrated pools and be remixed, re-blended and re-applied with artistic awe in order to saturate our mind's canvass with the glow and complexion of Jesus?
What if the best way to remix the colors on this Biblical palette was by using allegory, typology, epiphany, insight, intuition, and imagination?
What if, in order to do paint anew and afresh, we had to abandon the "paint-by-numbers" literalistic approach which produces nothing but "dead letter" carbon copies of a stick-figure Christ?
What if we were ALL part of a huge spiritual "art class" where we were EACH called not just to "stare" at the finished divine art somebody else drew, but rather that we each are called to recreate, reimagine and reinterpret the Biblical colors for our own lives and generation under the guidance of the Holy Spirit?
Wouldn't THAT be fun? Get your palette (not to mention your palate) and brush ready and I will meet you by the Sea of Galilee’s shore of sacred imagination — where the best art teacher of all awaits to illuminate us with the messianic metaphors of a thousand miraculous masterpieces.
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