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The Three Visitors
This is a picture I took at The Anasazi Ruins in Mesa Verde, Colorado of the Cliff Palace on that trip my husband and I took a couple of years ago on a spur of a moment whim, which is extremely odd for us, that I have spoken of before in one of the pages of another picture I uploaded. Truth be told, we originally wanted to go on this road trip "to satiate a strong hankering for some El Pollo Loco." Hahahaha! I know, I know, bizarre! It was either Texas or Arizona we had to go to in order to obtain this yumminess at the time. Since we had really wanted to see the Grand Canyon and these ruins, we decided to go the way of Arizona.
I ended up getting quite a few really cool shots along the way. But this picture was pretty ordinary (if you can look at these ruins and think ordinary), so I depicted a scene that represented to me Genesis 18 where God came to Abraham in person with two others to visit him. My reasoning for this take is that it was during this vacation that I had my second 40-day wonderfulness with the Lord. So in a sense, He visited me here. *Smile*
There is some debate as to whether or not the Lord's two companions were merely angels or that The Three Visitors were actually the Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I suppose that's up to the reader to decide how far his/her faith can be pushed. I personally think it was The Trinity, though many would disagree with me because they think God--the Father--is off in a distant Heaven somewhere, sitting on His throne doling out judgment; so they figure He could not possibly come and visit anyone. *Rolling My Eyes* Along this same line of thought, many believe that, since God is far away and distant, He has left us to fend for ourselves.
However, I see this passage as clearly defining God's intimacy with His own, not everyone, just His own. I think maybe the feeling of alienation people have is genuine, but it's because they haven't become His own. And for those out there who believe they are His own but think He couldn't possibly visit us, it may be that they think this concept impossible because they are afraid of how they would feel in His presence. It's easier for them to keep Him in a box than to own up to the reality of Him face to face.
I don't know about anyone else, but my husband and I have worked really hard on our front and back yards. We spent many a hard hour toiling and troubling over them. And we spent 24 years working very hard to raise our children. My point is that we didn't do all of this just to ignore it and them. We did all of this to enjoy it and them. It stands to reason that, like us, God takes an interest in His creation because He made it for His enjoyment. The only thing left then is who considers Him to be their Father.
Now just for the sake of argument, it might be worth the readers while to look up many instances in the Bible when people actually recorded seeing God, all three in one:
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one [Or the Lord our God (plural) is one Lord (singular)]" (Mark 12:29, NIV). Take for example Abraham, Jacob, Moses, The Seventy Elders, Joshua, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Paul, and John. They all recorded seeing God the Father, the Son Jesus, and/or the Holy Spirit. Some say John said that Jesus said no one has seen God. But then John jumps over to Revelation and explains how He saw God.
So don't allow silly man-made doctrines or your feeling of alienation to stifle your faith. Instead just reach out for Him as a small child does his/her parent. He will always respond when you do and may even pack a few punches of wonderful surprises that will blow your mind like He did with Abraham or like He did with me as noted in this picture I took and made.
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I was told that I should explain further what this picture means to me. I agree since the concept is a little difficult to comprehend.
The three orbs are The Trinity. To me the two smaller ones oozed out of the larger or the head orb, like liquid metal that is so pure that it is transparent, but can and do just as easily ooze back into it and become one again. Those are The Three Visitors--that is God in the three persons of the Heavenly Father, the Son Jesus, the Holy Spirit--to me because the circles or orbs are like eternity, no beginning and no end. They can step in and out of time with ease as is the case with Abraham's visit. God was able to share with Abraham that he was going to have a son, Isaac, within the year because He sees the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. (If you think about it, the only way time can exist--starting from a given point as the beginning--is if someone created it from the standpoint of eternity or if that person were eternal.)
The lines are representative of how we are linear in time outside of eternity when we are separate from Him. The picture is flat or dimensionally challenged, like us human beings, while the orbs, The Trinity, are multi-dimensional in comparison to the picture or us. We are the ancient ruins because of sin and sorrow and suffering and how they have ravaged our lives. Case in point, Abraham's relationship with Sarah was nearly ruined because of his lack of faith in God to provide Isaac through Sarah who was too old to conceive.
The orbs, or God, are rushing to us (or me in this instance) after we begin to call out and seek Him. The netting or screen is how we are trapped in time through sin until He rescues us from it.
I hope that clarifies the picture a bit more. *Smile* But just because this take is what the picture means to me doesn't mean it should be kept in a box. Feel free to let this picture touch you in different ways.
© 12-4-2007 Victoria Tribby
The Three Visitors
This is a picture I took at The Anasazi Ruins in Mesa Verde, Colorado of the Cliff Palace on that trip my husband and I took a couple of years ago on a spur of a moment whim, which is extremely odd for us, that I have spoken of before in one of the pages of another picture I uploaded. Truth be told, we originally wanted to go on this road trip "to satiate a strong hankering for some El Pollo Loco." Hahahaha! I know, I know, bizarre! It was either Texas or Arizona we had to go to in order to obtain this yumminess at the time. Since we had really wanted to see the Grand Canyon and these ruins, we decided to go the way of Arizona.
I ended up getting quite a few really cool shots along the way. But this picture was pretty ordinary (if you can look at these ruins and think ordinary), so I depicted a scene that represented to me Genesis 18 where God came to Abraham in person with two others to visit him. My reasoning for this take is that it was during this vacation that I had my second 40-day wonderfulness with the Lord. So in a sense, He visited me here. *Smile*
There is some debate as to whether or not the Lord's two companions were merely angels or that The Three Visitors were actually the Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I suppose that's up to the reader to decide how far his/her faith can be pushed. I personally think it was The Trinity, though many would disagree with me because they think God--the Father--is off in a distant Heaven somewhere, sitting on His throne doling out judgment; so they figure He could not possibly come and visit anyone. *Rolling My Eyes* Along this same line of thought, many believe that, since God is far away and distant, He has left us to fend for ourselves.
However, I see this passage as clearly defining God's intimacy with His own, not everyone, just His own. I think maybe the feeling of alienation people have is genuine, but it's because they haven't become His own. And for those out there who believe they are His own but think He couldn't possibly visit us, it may be that they think this concept impossible because they are afraid of how they would feel in His presence. It's easier for them to keep Him in a box than to own up to the reality of Him face to face.
I don't know about anyone else, but my husband and I have worked really hard on our front and back yards. We spent many a hard hour toiling and troubling over them. And we spent 24 years working very hard to raise our children. My point is that we didn't do all of this just to ignore it and them. We did all of this to enjoy it and them. It stands to reason that, like us, God takes an interest in His creation because He made it for His enjoyment. The only thing left then is who considers Him to be their Father.
Now just for the sake of argument, it might be worth the readers while to look up many instances in the Bible when people actually recorded seeing God, all three in one:
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one [Or the Lord our God (plural) is one Lord (singular)]" (Mark 12:29, NIV). Take for example Abraham, Jacob, Moses, The Seventy Elders, Joshua, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Paul, and John. They all recorded seeing God the Father, the Son Jesus, and/or the Holy Spirit. Some say John said that Jesus said no one has seen God. But then John jumps over to Revelation and explains how He saw God.
So don't allow silly man-made doctrines or your feeling of alienation to stifle your faith. Instead just reach out for Him as a small child does his/her parent. He will always respond when you do and may even pack a few punches of wonderful surprises that will blow your mind like He did with Abraham or like He did with me as noted in this picture I took and made.
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I was told that I should explain further what this picture means to me. I agree since the concept is a little difficult to comprehend.
The three orbs are The Trinity. To me the two smaller ones oozed out of the larger or the head orb, like liquid metal that is so pure that it is transparent, but can and do just as easily ooze back into it and become one again. Those are The Three Visitors--that is God in the three persons of the Heavenly Father, the Son Jesus, the Holy Spirit--to me because the circles or orbs are like eternity, no beginning and no end. They can step in and out of time with ease as is the case with Abraham's visit. God was able to share with Abraham that he was going to have a son, Isaac, within the year because He sees the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. (If you think about it, the only way time can exist--starting from a given point as the beginning--is if someone created it from the standpoint of eternity or if that person were eternal.)
The lines are representative of how we are linear in time outside of eternity when we are separate from Him. The picture is flat or dimensionally challenged, like us human beings, while the orbs, The Trinity, are multi-dimensional in comparison to the picture or us. We are the ancient ruins because of sin and sorrow and suffering and how they have ravaged our lives. Case in point, Abraham's relationship with Sarah was nearly ruined because of his lack of faith in God to provide Isaac through Sarah who was too old to conceive.
The orbs, or God, are rushing to us (or me in this instance) after we begin to call out and seek Him. The netting or screen is how we are trapped in time through sin until He rescues us from it.
I hope that clarifies the picture a bit more. *Smile* But just because this take is what the picture means to me doesn't mean it should be kept in a box. Feel free to let this picture touch you in different ways.
© 12-4-2007 Victoria Tribby