Passover is fast approaching. I thought it appropriate to display a Rabbi studying Torah. This is one of my favorite pictures that I have drawn, I struggled a lot with it so it reminds me not to give up. But that’s not why it’s my favorite. I can’t tell you the name of the Rabbi I just liked the beauty of a man advanced in age so intensely immersed in Gods words.
I was reading about Mary pouring her alabaster box full of perfume over Jesus only 2 days before Passover, two days before he was crucified. Did she know? Did she know he would soon become the Passover?How could she? Her act was an act of faith because she didn’t know, even the disciples were confused about this mystery. We read Gods word to know Him better, but do we act in faith even when we don’t fully understand those words or who He truly is? perhaps we read to know ourselves better, what we look like, what we believe…perhaps we read that we might know how to act in faith. Perhaps this Rabbi isn’t studying Gods word at all, but in his old age simply looking into a mirror, a true act of faith indeed.