A perfect Picture of Jesus

A perfect Picture of Jesus
By: Cloyd Uyson
“Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever...” This is obviously a very great, wise sayings and quotes about how we project the picture of Jesus, literally and in figurative sense. For all the Christians and other followers of Jesus Christ in the world, we have a great fondness and reverence for the picture of Jesus. Part and parcel of our religious upbringing connotes that sense of love and devotion to any image or picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. We see a lot of pictures of Jesus from his birth in a manger up to his death on the cross. We dearly love Jesus so much that anything associated with him we do praise, adore and worship.

Our religion is so great that the founder and leader and at the same time our God Jesus Christ Himself is someone who is like us in everything except sin. As the Theologians and Scriptures scholars would say, Jesus is the God made man through the mystery of the incarnation. Had God did not undergo the process of being conceived and born; we will not be able to see a picture of Jesus or anything of his resemblance.

Thanks therefore to the love and graciousness of God for sending forth His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, the second Person in the Holy Trinity through a Virgin named Mary. Mary being a human herself conceived, gave birth and took care of Jesus from infancy up to his sad death on the cross. How privileged Mary and Joseph were to have Jesus in their midst. I just could not imagine the inexpressible joy that they have for having the Son of God in their midst. This is something which the first Baptist Church emphasizes, to always have Jesus in the midst.

After the death of Jesus in Calvary, artists around the world outsmarted one another in painting and presenting the closest resemblance of the picture of Jesus. Since there was no camera yet or anything that could exactly capture the face of anyone, we cannot have a complete guarantee that the picture we see now in view of the historical Jesus is really the actual or the same face that Jesus had. Hence, we should thank St. Veronica who captured an almost perfect resemblance of the face of the suffering Jesus in her shroud or white cloth which she wiped in the sweaty and bloody face of Jesus while carrying the cross. It was basically from this image that artists around the world patterned their paintings of Jesus, the so called Shroud of Turin”.