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Weird as it may sound, God’s Word instructs us to provoke.

Many years back while I was a fine arts student at the University of Houston, I had been considering God’s love for the Jewish nation, especially the passage in Romans 10:19 where Paul is teaching about God’s everlasting love for the Jews. In this context Paul quotes Moses, “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.”

A “poster” style concept formed in my heart and mind that I felt might strike the Romans 10:19 chord with the Jewish students on campus. The intent of the poster was specifically designed to “provoke” Jews to the type of jealously Moses saw and Paul articulates. As a believer and a creative person, one has to be very careful about saying, “God told me to do this or that,” when sometimes it may be only our own creative ideas. One could place that in the category of “self works”. However, for me a worse pitfall is to disobey when you really believe He is directing.

I felt as if this was to be posted on campus during the Jewish Passover season. The poster was printed on a stark white paper. On it I designed a huge, red, bloodstain that was vivid, bold and clearly visible from a great distance. The red stain was placed over the top of a graphical lamb I drew. But the lamb was printed without ink. It was created in a technique known as “blind embossing”. From a distance the lamb could not be seen. As one drew near the bloodstain, the white lamb became clearly visible behind it.

There was a brief paragraph of copy about Christ being the Passover lamb under the art. This is because two verses before the Romans 10:19 passage Paul says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. “ (Rom. 10:17). The Word had to be on the poster to provide a resting place for their faith.

This poster design was used for various street evangelism events in later years. But for me, the first use was why I spent so much time creating it. One day I expect to hear who it was God was after during that Passover season.

May God bless you and the work He designed you for.

Written by Dave Rogers, Lamb Creek Current ©2011 Lamb Creek Creative ServicesMany years back while I was a fine arts student at the University of Houston, I had... more