One of the greatest acts of sacrificial love is to go before God as a priest and as one of His own children to plead the cause of those in need of mercy, deliverance, healing, or divine intervention. It’s an honor to have audience with God and to be able to spend yourself on behalf of those who are unable to pray for themselves. Through intercession, we carry out Christ’s ministry of reconciliation, connecting the heart of man with the heart of God. As His “prayer warriors”, we interrupt the agenda of the enemy who seeks to separate us from the God we were created to know in truth. We actively participate in the fulfillment of our Lord’s decree, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done – as it is in heaven, so let it be in the earth.”
“And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.” (Isaiah 6:3)
Photography captures glimpses of God’s glory. It puts on display small but meaningful expressions of how we’ve experienced the wonder of God’s glorious creation in all its beauty, diversity, mystery, and catastrophe. Every photo, from the quick and casual snapshot, to the most masterful composition, is another reminder of the depths of God’s wisdom and understanding, and just how small we are in light of the eternal, omnipotent One who created the immeasurable, unknowable universe we continue to explore.
“For You have possessed my reins: You have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Your works; and that my soul knows very well. My substance was not hid from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.” (Psalms 139:13-16)
To nurture an idea from shapeless potentiality to visible substance, is to operate in a manner that is reminiscent of the work of our own Creator. It is a work of faith to put “skin” on what was once invisible and cause what was only an imagination to exist tangibly in the natural realm. To create a work of art is to operate in the spirit and nature of God and give birth to a miracle. God gives vision and insight. It is His gift to allow us to travail in labor until we are rewarded with the manifestation of what he gave us to present to the world.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
– Psalms 90:12 (KJV)
