I heard on the radio the other day about a new piece of modern art which is being commissioned to go in a UK cathedral. The subject is to be 'the resurrection' and 5 people are putting forward proposals. One of the proposals was to hang two words from the ceiling:
I AM
I thought how amazing, and what depth there is in these two words. Jesus said 'I am the resurrection and the life' God called Himself 'I AM'. Many times in John's gospel Jesus refers to Himself as 'I am'. It is true to refer to Him as 'I am', it is not 'I was' because He still is, He has been raised from the dead and is in eternal glory and lives on today both in the church and in the world. 'I AM' hanging in the cathedral should be a reminder that He is there present, seeing all that happens and that He is the one true, living God.
