I Will Lift Up My Eyes

In my trip this spring to Texas, I had the opportunity to take some pictures of some of the ecclesiastical art which is inside Our Savior Lutheran Church in Houston. I love this Christ the Lord of Life sculpture. Can you imagine being a child and staring up at this life size Jesus and then imagine yourself in His arms? What a picture of the Gospel this is.


This banner is most unusual and yet so full of meaning. We read in the Old Testament about the covering for the Ark of the Covenant. The word for the covering is Atonement and once a year, the High Priest would sprinkle blood on the cover for the forgiveness of sins. The same word is used in Genesis when Adam and Eve were covered -- once again it took the shedding of blood (in this case an animal) to provide the covering. On this banner, it is quite apparent that Jesus is the Atonement -- once and for all for our sins.

The sculpture here is entitled The Risen Christ. I can picture our Risen Lord proclaiming the victory over sin, death and the power of the evil one. Art like this is instructive, didactic and gives us pause to meditate when we view it. Oh, that all our churches were filled with sights, sounds and smells which lift us out of our ordinary dreary daily life and cause us to lift up our eyes to the Eternal God.