Suppose you were trying to explain the coming of Christ to someone who knew little or nothing of Christianity. How would you begin to convey the significance of this timeless, saving Truth, which glowed so brightly in Jesus' life?
Before you even began to describe the essence of Christ, you might make use of some imagery. Perhaps the imagery of nature. Maybe the coming of Christ—an awakening to its powerful presence in our thought—could be likened to the breaking of dawn in a new day. There is a certain beauty as the light begins to bring the clouds alive with color. There is a feeling of inevitability about the increasing brightness of the light.
Or perhaps the coming of Christ is like the emergence of spring after a hard, cold winter. The ice begins to melt off the creek. Tiny flowers start to spring up where the snow is receding. Branches are leafing out. A kind of inescapable renewal is bursting into life.
