THE EXPRESSED IMAGE OF HIS PERSON

In the Rospigliosi Palace in Rome is Guido Reni’s famous fresco, “The Aurora,” a work unequalled in that period for nobility of line and poetry and colour. It is painted on a lofty ceiling. As you stand on the pavement and look up at it, your neck stiffens, your head grows dizzy, and the figures become hazy and indistinct. And so the owner of the Palace placed a broad mirror near the floor. In it the picture is reflected and you can sit down before it and study the wonderful work of art in comfort. Jesus Christ does precisely that for us when we try to get some notion of God. He is the mirror of Deity. He is the express Image of God’s Person. He interprets God to our dull hearts. In Him God becomes visible and intelligible to us. We cannot by any amount of searching find out God. The more we try, the more we are bewildered. Then Jesus Christ appears. He is God, stooping down to our level, and He enables our feeble thoughts to get some real hold on God Himself. - Frank M. Fairchild in Moody Monthly