Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
25 March. The Day the Author entered the Story.
"I could no more 'meet' Him, than Hamlet could meet Shakespeare.
If Hamlet were to explore his world he wouldn’t see any evidence of Shakespeare.
He wouldn’t find him in outer space, hiding behind a tree, or submerged in the depths of the ocean.
However, Hamlet would see evidence of Shakespeare everywhere.
He would be living in the world Shakespeare made, and the existence of this world would entirely depend upon its author.
But for Hamlet to know Shakespeare personally, intimately even, the author would have to write himself into the story. Hamlet could initiate nothing. For the two to meet, it must be Shakespeare’s doing.
This is the basic claim of the Christian narrative.
There is an Author to our story, to our world. If ever we would meet Him, it will not be of our own initiation. He must act. He must write Himself into human history. And He has. As the Apostle John says, 'In the beginning was the Word...and the Word became flesh.'
The scandalous claim of Scripture is that the Author entered the plot. He stepped over the threshold of time and space to be born by a Virgin in a seemingly insignificant town in the Middle East.
The Creator of the world wrapped in a first-century diaper: phenomenal cosmic power in a bitty living space.
This is our best and only hope. This is joy. This is life" (C.S.Lewis).
The angel said :'Hail, Mary, favored one!' (Luke 1:28).