AUTHORS, POETS, & ARTISTS

Authors, Poets, & Artists

In eternity-past God the Author had in mind the finished book of eternity-future. Then, the Father plucked a feather from the Holy Spirit and, dipping the holy quill into an inkwell filled with His Son’s blood, the Ancient of days began to write the history of the world.

By skilful use of repetitive redemptive themes, the Author bound the pages of His Book together. By pregnant promise He attracts and keeps His readerships’ attention from beginning to end. Word by word, sentence by sentence, line by line, chapter by chapter, His Spirit guides them through all the twists and turns of His inspired Word. Whether describing calmness in a garden or panic in a wilderness He uses every jot and tittle to maximum and dramatic effect. His Word is living, and His Spirit works with it in the diligent reader’s heart, in all those who will attend His Book signing.

In eternity-past God the Poet had in mind the full-blossomed anthology of eternity-future. Beginning with His eternal Word, by His Spirit, the Poet then brought together every letter of His alphabet, from the first to the last. The buzzing bees of thesaurus collected the pollen of prose from poppy petals to make the honey of His written rhythmic Word.
By use of couplets of contrast, such as light and darkness, good and evil, night and day, Heaven and Hell, and pairs of paradox, such as God as a human, Gospel Law, to live, you must die, He painted poetic word-pictures and hung them in the air like lark-song.
In accordance with His story the dim flame on the melted candlewax of hope would all but sputter and die before He set the Light of the World a pedestal. With His Breath and with His Word He began to breath hope into the hearts of those who sat in darkness, those who walked in the shadow of death. Then the Morning Star arrived, first by bursting forth from the womb and then from the tomb. The Word rose with healing in His wings. The Spirit is now drawing all the nations to His recitals.

In eternity-past God the Artist had in mind the full picture of eternity-future. Donning His coat of many colours and crimson beret, with palate in hand, the Artist began to dip the brush of His Providence into the three primary colours of space, time, and matter. His rainbow covenant was in the sky as His arcing paintbrush flashed back and forth from eternity to time, and from time to eternity. Daubing the canvass of His creation with His covenant colours the picture of eternity future began to emerge from the seeming chaos. By clever use of light and shade He began to give His painting depth and meaning. With the adoring crowds gathering in His gallery we await His masterpiece’s future and unveiling.

As encouragement to all authors, poets, and artists: ‘The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth. The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd’ Ecclesiastes 12:10-11 (Berean Study Bible). ‘I have filled [Bazalel] with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs…’ Exodus 31:3-4a. Says Francis Schaeffer, ‘A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.’