The Promise
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Isaiah 11 paints a beautiful promise from our Heavenly Father to us. I haven't
seen many pictures of the wolf and the lamb together and curiously, not any
included the child who would lead. I felt moved to depict this vision through
my drawings. I had prayed and asked the Lord if Isaiah's vision would be what
He wanted for my next project after "The Lion of Judah". The following weekend
HIs answer came with a definite yes. On the way to a festival in the mountains,
my husband and I took a scenic drive up. We noticed an older couple petting
deer and elk in the wild! We pulled over to view this spectacle up close. The
woman commented to us that this must be a glimpse of the future when Jesus
reigns! A large young elk came up to me with a young deer by his side to be
pet. What an answer to prayer! So I went home with the Lord's blessing to draw
"The Promise".
The child's place in the Kingdom of God is one of importance. In our society today, children are not thought of in the way our Lord Jesus sees them. I feel this picture is appropriate to remind us of why we need them, to remind us of how we should be to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Children are vulnerable and sense the uncertainty in our world today. I feel this picture is important to display their position and validity in Adonai's eyes. The Promise is one of surety of who they are and what they have to look forward to. It's also to remind us to be like these precious ones in the sight of God as He warns up in Luke 18:16-17, However, Yeshua called the children to HIm and said, "Let the children come to Me and stop hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Yes! I tell you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, will not enter it at all!" Matthew 18:1-6, At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" And He called a child to Him, stood him among them, and said, "Yes, I tell you that unless you change and become like little children, you won't even enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So the greatest in the Kingdom is whoever makes himself as humble as this child. Whoever welcomes one such child in My name, welcomes Me and whoever ensnares one of these little ones who trust Me, it would be better for him to have a millstone around his neck and be drowned in the open sea." The lattice was an afterthought following the event of my cat walking with muddy paws across the work in progress. Fortunately the Lord remedied it with the idea of lattice to cover up the disaster. The lattice completes the message to when the lover peers through the lattice in Song of Solomon 2:9b "Behold, he is standing behind our wall, he is looking through the windows, he is peering through the lattice." Also in 1 Corinthians 13:12, For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. In the time the picture depicts, we will see Jesus face to face as the child does on the same side of the lattice! The pure in heart will see God! Matthew 5:8, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. A child's innocence is the most precious condition of the heart to obtain, cherish, and protect. Unfortunately this world is doing everything to destroy such beauty as the children are the main target for evil, like the rampant abortion, drugs and pornography. I pray this picture speaks life to our hearts and minds to pray for the children effectively to know their value to God and restores hope and innocence in a time to be ready for "The Promise", In His Holy Son's name Jeshua, Jesus, I pray. Amen. - Pamela J. C. Smart |
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