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The Best Seats
The Best Seats
The Best Seats, a mixed media painting on canvas
From the Upside Down Collection
Based on Matthew 23:4-23
Matthew 23: 4-6 tells us, “They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues….”
This passage refers to the Pharisees of Jesus’s time. I like this reminder of how easy it is to fall into the Pharisees shoes. We want to be exalted, we want to impress, and we want to look good. We will do so even if it means pushing others down, behind, and into darkness. We want to shine, forgetting all that we have is God’s gift, His. Our gifts show His goodness. May we share our seats.
Art Size: 24 × 24 with an 1 1/2 profile
Acrylic, Gouache, Varnish
Comes Ready to Hang
Jesus in all His goodness is not what we sinners expect. Jesus teaches that the weak are strong, the poor are kings, and the blind see. Jesus brings an Upside Down Kingdom where the dependant are the powerful. Jesus’s Kingdom is opposite of what the world seeks to teach us, and we can rejoice in that.
The only qualification to enter this kingdom is a heart of need, knowing only Jesus gives what will fulfill and fulfill He will. “They shall call his name Immanuel which means God with us,” says Matthew 1:23. As we endlessly feel, see and know our need, Jesus is with us.
May these paintings remind us that Jesus invites us into His Upside Down Kingdom.
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The Best Seats, a mixed media painting on canvas
From the Upside Down Collection
Based on Matthew 23:4-23
Matthew 23: 4-6 tells us, “They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues….”
This passage refers to the Pharisees of Jesus’s time. I like this reminder of how easy it is to fall into the Pharisees shoes. We want to be exalted, we want to impress, and we want to look good. We will do so even if it means pushing others down, behind, and into darkness. We want to shine, forgetting all that we have is God’s gift, His. Our gifts show His goodness. May we share our seats.
Art Size: 24 × 24 with an 1 1/2 profile
Acrylic, Gouache, Varnish
Comes Ready to Hang
Jesus in all His goodness is not what we sinners expect. Jesus teaches that the weak are strong, the poor are kings, and the blind see. Jesus brings an Upside Down Kingdom where the dependant are the powerful. Jesus’s Kingdom is opposite of what the world seeks to teach us, and we can rejoice in that.
The only qualification to enter this kingdom is a heart of need, knowing only Jesus gives what will fulfill and fulfill He will. “They shall call his name Immanuel which means God with us,” says Matthew 1:23. As we endlessly feel, see and know our need, Jesus is with us.
May these paintings remind us that Jesus invites us into His Upside Down Kingdom.
TO SHIP THIS PAINTING, please choose LARGE PAINTING SHIPPING at check out.