In my professional life I talk with many people before I actually meet them.  Several times people have told me that I didn't look like I sounded.  I have heard that many Hollywood stars of the silent movie era never made the transition to the "talkies" because their voices didn't correspond with their "on screen" appearance.

Which is the real person?  The one we see or the one we hear?  That might sound like a stupid question but there are people who are hard to look at who are easy to listen to and vice-versa.  The truth of course is that they are one and the same.  Especially when it comes to what a person says and what a person does. 

That is why Paul can write:

1Co 8:5&6  For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

It is by hearing God and seeing what He did while sharing this space with us that we can truly experience Him; that George Fox can proclaim with conviction that there is one Jesus Christ who can speak to our condition; that individual perceptions of God which create the many gods of this world can find unity in the One God from whom all good things come.  Before God spoke and creation was borne there was no way of knowing God.  Before Rembrandt painted there was no way of knowing his talent and the same for Beethoven and thousands of people down through history whom themselves were the work of God.

So I ask you what child is this?

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