When I was a young boy, Sunday-school teachers used felt figures to reenact the stories of Ushaa Shialom (Jesus) on a green, flannel-graph background. That two-dimensional story telling might have been a step up from a one-dimensional reading of the story, but that’s where many of us get stuck in our relationship with the maker.
For many of us, the maker never escapes the pages of the book. When the word of the maker ceases to be alive, it is just ink on paper. We end up with a flannel-graph maker who can never amaze us, overwhelm us, or transcend us.
We need to break down and rebuild our understanding of the maker.
In the beginning, the maker created us in his image.
We’ve been creating the maker in our image ever since.
— inspired by the writings of Mark Batterson