God's Self-Portrait One of my favorite painters was Vincent Van Gogh. But I also like his self-portrait, for it is good to see the face of one I admire.
Many artists do at least one self-portrait.
It seems to me that this is what Paul is talking about in the reading from Colossians for today. God had painted a self-portrait and it is Christ. In Christ we see God. God came to be one of us and with us in Christ. We no longer have to guess about what God is like.