Picking God Out in the Crowd

On Beliefnet.com there is a feature that allows readers to share their favorite pictures of Jesus. There are images of Jesus dead on the cross. There is an image of a musclebound beefcakes kind of Jesus snapping the cross like a twig. There is a Dr. Doolittle kind of Jesus. There are all kinds of mental pictures of who Jesus is and what he might look like. A famous church historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, wrote a book "Jesus through the Centuries" that shows how different historical eras saw different things in him. In 1996, there was a popular song "One of Us?" by Joan Osborne that captures musically the fascination people have with what he would look like today. You may have heard Jim Carrey sing it in the movie Bruce Almighty. See it here.

There is a nice blessing in Numbers 6:22-26 that goes like this: "The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD’s face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD look upon you with favor and give you peace." When you imagine God's face what does it look like?