Sandi Hester

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.  Oswald Chambers

We’re halfway through Easter week.  If you’ve taken time to stop and look at this blog I want to encourage you to take time to stop and remember your Savior today too.  Don’t let the business of the week cause you to ignore the importance of this week.  Take time to savor Christ this week.  Take time to taste Him, to look upon Him, to meditate on Him, and after you’ve done all that – take time to praise Him this week.  May we get less caught up in bunnies and eggs and more focused on the death and resurrection.  Some suggestions of things to do to savor Him this week: watch the Passion, read from the gospel accounts of what took place during this week and look-up where they were prophesied (using the cross references in your bible), use a devotional to help you focus on Jesus and what He did for us (Grady and I are using a devotion that John Piper’s wife, Noel, wrote titled “Lenten Lights” – for some reason I keep calling it lentil lights 🙂 – oh brother!), play music that focuses on Christ’s death and resurrection, etc. 

I did this piece of art work years ago.  I love this quote by Oswald Chambers and I did a piece like this for Christmas gifts one year.  Let’s not ignore the meaning of the cross this week – savor it with me.

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; He suspends the earth over nothing.  He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.  He covers the face of the full moon, spreading His clouds over it.  He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.  The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at His rebuke.  By His power He churned up the sea…by His breath the skies became fair… And these are but the outer fringe of His works; how faint the whisper we hear of Him!  Job 26:7-14

I’m in the book of Job (one of my all-time favorite books in the bible) right now for my quiet time and I read these verses last week and I can’t get them out of my head.  I don’t know how many times I’ve gone back and read them.  Job takes just a portion of creation and describes what God amazingly did with it to the glory of His Name.  The words are poetic, beautiful, full of power, and they make you want to stand up and praise the Lord at the top of your voice (at least that’s what they made me do) – and then Job drops the bomb on you and tells you that as majestic, powerful, and mighty as these things are – they are just the beginning of the majesty of our God!  It’s all just a whisper!  I just haven’t been able to get over it.

The painting is just a quick sunset painting I did a while back.  I just stuck this painting on here because this is a painting blog and therefore felt it necessary to post a painting, but I really just wanted to share this scripture with you :).