During my elementary and middle school years, my family attended the Church of God in Christ where I learned some people take comfort believing in God as belonging to their own race. I've seen art books of Virgin and Holy Family as Asian, African, Indian/Pakistanian, Native American, and Caucasian, as well as wearing countless traditional costumes.
While I find the international personification of God a most beautifully comforting concept, as a Caucasian Judaic Christian, I am very honored that the perfectly loving God could possibly love me; so honored that I am reminded of Fanny Crosby's hymn, 'I Shall know Him.'
If I am so very privileged to meet Our Lord Jesus, I will know Him not by His race, appearance, or voice, but I will know Our Lord Jesus by the thorn prints on His forehead, nail prints in his hands and feet, the healing stripes on His back, and the spear scar on His side.
Then I am reminded of Charles Wesley's hymn, 'Arise my Soul Arise' where five pleading wounds He bears for me to intercede.
How can the Great I AM love me?
I don't know.
About Me
- Anita Mullins Brown
- From NE Ohio, lived in Appalachia for 20 years, now in Eastern NC for 20 years.
