This is a visual representation of the verse that was used in a sermon on community at church this morning. I made it with this cool website called Wordle. It converts chunks of words into pictures like this one. The thing I love about this program is that it forces you to interact with the text in an entirely different way than just black words on white paper.
When reading/studying the bible I often miss out on the power of words and sentences in scripture because I’m lulled into complacency by the constant left to right pattern of reading. It’s easy for me to treat it just like a textbook, a newspaper, or even a blog post, and I miss out on the potency of the Words of God because I just lazily cruise through the text to get to the end of a passage or chapter. These word-pictures are engaging in the way that they draw the eye to different words every time they are looked upon, which, for me, often infuses new power into the original message.
Which words pulled you in from this verse? How did it affect your thought process as you looked at the picture?
“LET” is what struck me. It is so big! I would think NOT or NEGLECT or STOP mighty be bigger words. But the emphasis is on LET = Allow. Giving permission to do something
love this entry tripp! i can’t wait to check this site out. thanks for sharing