Sculptors
have a term for the artist’s ability to look at a rough piece of stone and see
it in its final, perfected form. It is called “hyperseeing.”
Gutzon
Borglum (1867–1941) is the sculptor who created many well-known public works of
art. Probably the most famous is Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in South
Dakota. Borglum’s housekeeper captured the concept of hyperseeing when she
gazed up at the massive faces of the four US presidents on Mt. Rushmore for the
first time. “Mr. Borglum,” she gasped, “how did you know Mr. Lincoln was in
that rock?”
Hyperseeing
is also a good description of our all-seeing God. He sees all that we are and
more. He sees what we shall be when He has completed His work and we stand
before Him, holy and without blemish: the exact likeness, the very image of
Jesus. The God who started this great work in you will keep at it until He
completes it on the very day Jesus Christ appears (see Phil. 1:6).
God will
not be denied! He has such a longing for our perfection that nothing can or
will remain an obstacle until He has finished the work He began so long ago.
If only . . . if only we will put ourselves in the Master Sculptor’s hands.
