Merry Christmas everyone! Today I have an illustration from a sermon I heard a couple weeks ago about Mary, Jesus' mom. The sermon was about Luke 1:26-38, and you can watch/listen to it here.
I got a bit off track on this illlustration. As I listened to Josh's sermon about Mary's story I thought about the different descriptions of angels we are given in the Bible, and thought about how I would approach it. In the past I have drawn a man with wings, which seems to be the most acceptable version these days. But then I got to thinking I always try to stay as close to scripture as I can so I really should strive to be correct with this drawing. While listening to the sermon I worked on Mary, and then over the course of the next several days I drew up the different versions of angels and came up with what you see here and what I hope is a fun and different way to present them. These two are from Ezekiel 1. Then I remembered that angels are described in the new testament as shining or glowing men, but they don't describe wings. So maybe I should go that route next time. I sure had fun with putting this all together.
While the angel is definiteyly not the focus of this story (the impending birth of our Lord and savior is) I hope you like what I came up with.
I hope you have enjoyed this illustration, and that you will go and listen to Josh's sermon, it was really good. God bless you all, and merry Christmas!
