Even once you get there, a 40th wedding anniversary seems hard to believe. To me, it feels more like 20, since I barely have the knack of being a more sanctified husband. But whether I can imagine it or not, Sheri and I just celebrated 40 years of marriage. It became an opportunity to consider its deeper meaning.
An important turning point in my understanding of God and Scripture was when I learned that the many images of God in creation (rock, sky, mountain, fountain, vine, father, son, spouse) were not merely God accommodating his teaching to our limited understanding—as in, “Look at that rock. I am like that, in some ways.” But they were God’s glory—spiritual realities—being expressed in a physical medium. In other words, rocks exist because they express something about their creator. Creation is very personal, as are most human works of art. God is the original; creation is in the pattern of the original. Within this expansive self-revelation of God, no created thing captures everything about the Lord, but some things reveal more of him than others. Human beings, created in the image of God, reflect his glory as much as anything in creation can reflect
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