“Renew thine image, Lord, in me;
Lowly and gentle may I be:
No charms but these to thee are dear;
No anger mayest thou ever find,
No pride in my unruffled mind,
But faith and heaven-born peace be there.”
The deepest yearning of every true Christian life is to be like Christ. But what is Christ like? In the fourth century the empress Constantine sent to Eusebius, begging him to send her a likeness of the Saviour. “What do you mean,” Eusebius asked in reply, “By a likeness of Christ? Not, of course, the image of him as he is truly and unchangeably; not his human nature glorified, as it was at the Transfiguration… Since we confess that our Saviour is God and Lord, we prepare ourselves to see him as God; and if, in addition to this hope, you set high value on images of the Saviour, what better artist can there be than the God-word himself?” Thus he referred the empress to the New Testament for the only true picture of Christ.
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