Out of Perspective

I'm driven crazy because I feel like I can't learn fast enough. That's one of my favorite things about college, we're learning something new every two seconds and just when you start to comprehend what was just said, there's something new to learn. This week has been especially amazing in this way.

In chapel, our speakers have been talking about art and helping us learn how to view it. As we've learned, art is amoral, neither good nor bad, it is made one way or the other because of the perspective of the one viewing it. And perspective is everything in the area of art. Art alone, is an expression of what is in the heart and shows the despair of the artist. Art can offer no hope, because it is made by sinful people, who have only limited sight. Sight that has been dimmed because of sin and everyone is born sinful.
One speaker especially talked about the art of Thomas Kinkade. Most conservative Christians like his artwork, even if they do not appreciate most types. It is seen as safe. But our speaker and later, my English teacher talked about how it gives a wrong view of the world and life. You see, as believers, we aren't called to live a "safe" life, we are called to follow Jesus and a lot of times that involves trials and temptations; even Jesus was tempted and trials are part of life.

Perhaps the the writer of Eccl. was right, all is vanity. Everything created by man is full of despair and vanity because we're all sinful. Only God has the right perspective and the full perspective, which is why His art is filled with hope and life, not just life on earth, but eternal life. A friend of mine and I were talking about art last night. We realize that not only is art to be viewed this way, but English and literature are also. All is created by humans who are sinful, therefore it can never be as God meant it to be. And if those can be, isn't everything else that has been created by the human hand? This must cause us to consider many things.
There are so many other things to consider about life and I wish I could, but not now. "Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face"(1Cor.13:12).