The most beautiful event in history was Jesus’ death and resurrection. What horrors and darkness followed by glory and light! It’s the biggest story arc the world has ever seen. And God crafted it beautifully—the death of His Son for the life of all mankind.
Part of what made this beauty possible was the flesh God wrapped around Himself. He became man to save man. He became one of us to reach all of us. This perfect entity became imperfection for us—not through sin, but through every other imperfection we deal with. Jesus dealt with skin blemishes. He stubbed his toe multiple times. He probably even had folks cut him off on busy roads.
If the perfect God had died His death in the heavens, we could have never related to it. Or He could have come in apparition form—floating an inch off the ground—and died that way. But He came as one of us. Really just like us. What beauty!
This salvation plan He created was completely relatable. We could get it. No matter how complex justification and atonement are, we can get it because God wrapped flesh around it.
Do you wrap flesh around the things you create? Can people relate to the things you make? Is there humanity within?
The best art, the best work, is filled with humanity. It’s filled with imperfections. It’s filled with struggle and pain.
It involves an element of ugliness which makes the beauty all that more impacting. It involves honesty from the creator.
People relate with honest. They relate with pain. They relate with imperfection.
Do people relate with what you make?
