July 28

Do they see Jesus?

“Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27).
“Beholding . . . the stedfastness of your faith in Christ” (Col. 2:5).

Dannecker, a celebrated sculptor, spent eight years making a statue of Jesus. After having spent two years on it he brought a little child into his studio and asked, “My dear, who is that?”
The little girl looked up at the wonderful work and replied, “It is a great man.”
The sculptor was smitten with disappointment. He said to himself, “This will never do. The statue must be a truer likeness of Christ than this.”
And so he turned his chisel and his mallet for two or three years longer. He prayed in the vigils of the night, asking God to help him to reproduce the likeness of Christ upon the face of the marble.

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