T. 25. II. 5 – 7. Jesus: “Who hangs an ’empty frame’ upon a wall and stands before it, deep in reverence, as if a masterpiece were there to see? Yet if you see your brother as a body, it is but this you do!
The masterpiece that God has set within this frame is really all there is to see. The body seems to hold it for a while, but without obscuring it in any way. Yet what God has created needs no frame, for what He has created He supports and frames within Himself.
His masterpiece He offers you to see. And would you rather see the frame instead of this? And see the picture not at all?
The Holy Spirit is the frame God set around the part of Him that you would see as separate. Yet its frame is joined to its Creator, one with Him and with His masterpiece. This is its purpose, and when you choose to see it in its intended place, you do not try to make the frame into the picture.
The Holy Spirit is the frame God set around the part of Him that you would see as separate. Yet its frame is joined to its Creator, one with Him and with His masterpiece. This is its purpose, and when you choose to see it in its intended place, you do not try to make the frame into the picture.
The frame that God has given it but serves His purpose, not yours apart from His. It is your separate purpose that obscures the picture, and cherishes the frame instead of it! Yet God has set His masterpiece within a frame that will endure forever, when yours has long since crumbled into dust. But think you not the picture is destroyed in any way.
What God creates is safe from all corruption, unchanged and perfect in eternity. Accept God’s frame instead of yours, and you will see the masterpiece. Look at its loveliness, and understand the Mind that thought it, not in flesh and bones, but in a frame as lovely as Itself. Its holiness lights up the sinlessness the frame of darkness hides, and casts a veil of light across the picture’s face which but reflects the light that shines from it to its Creator.
Think not this face was ever darkened because you saw it in a frame of littleness and death. God kept it safe that you might look on it, and see the holiness that He has given it.”