Wednesday, July 6, 2016

THEY SAY A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSANDS WORDS.

WHAT ARE THE SECRETS AND HIDDEN MESSAGES OF THE GREAT  MASTERPIECES OF ART TELLING US ABOUT THE PAINTING  "THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD" BY WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT?

This was my image in my thoughts as  I awoke. I am sure everyone has seen or heard about knocking on the door to everything or waiting for doors of opportunities to open.Imagination and symbolism  help humans to co-create and visualise possibilities for manifestations.There is even a song 'knocking -knocking on heavens door" that is still famous and stirs the consciousness to think about heavenly places.I google the artist William Holman Hunt and looked at his first rendition of the painting 'The light of the world"and found out why Jesus was knocking on the door.There are other paintings that followed the same concept of  Jesus knocking on the door but this first one caught my interest.The inspiration for the painting was a verse in the Bible from revelations 3:20 which reads:Behold "which means look and get this message", I "meaning Jesus" stand "meaning  I am present" at the door,"meaning the gateway or entrance"and knock,"I am not coming in unless you open the door." The artist put a secret message in the painting and didn't tell anyone until years later.Here is the secret he revealed "there is no handle on the door in the picture"  he said,"this represents the obstinately shut mind" Jesus couldn't open the door and he still can't open the door.He just stands and waits with a lantern to light the way through the darkness and waiting for someone or you to open the door from the inside. The rest of the verse in the Bible revelation 3:20 says" If any man hears my voice and opens the door,I  will come into him.Wait a minute did he say he would come into them?And it goes on "and will sup with him what does word sup mean?To sup means to drink a sip a little bit of liquid or to drink with you.Now we have slang of the word sup from wassup and that would mean Jesus was just checking on you.The verse finishes with and he with me.So if you open the door to your heart and mind Jesus will come into you and find out wassup or drink with you or have supper with you.Either way, you allow him to come into you because the door only opens from the inside.
 





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