The Sun In Her Eyes
16 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
in Inspired By God Tags: depression, freedom, healing, joy, makoyed, summer, tears, vadim
The sun in her eyes.
The tears on her cheeks.
The smile of her lips.
The summer that heals.
Her head lifted high.
Her arms open wide.
Her joy of the heart.
Her summer so bright.
DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?
23 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in Inspired By God Tags: christ, christian, death, easter, friday, god, good, jesus, makoyed, resurrection, sacrifice, savior, sting, testament, vadim, vadimages
Happy Easter!
This is Disgrace to God’s Grace
03 Dec 2009 Leave a Comment
in God's Word, Inspired By God Tags: arms, disgrace, disrespect, god, grace, hate, kids, makoyed, parents, rocks, salvation, teenagers, vadim
God was stretching arms to me.
I was throwing rocks at Him.
Such a response to God’s grace…
Such a disgrace!
Let us value and respect what God has given us: a family, friends, church, salvation, grace, love, healing, future, wisdom, knowledge, wife, husband, kids, money, prosperity, etc. More
7 Steps To Living a Holy Life (Illustrated)
08 Oct 2009 Leave a Comment
in God's Word, Inspired By God Tags: apostle, clothes, colassions, design, graphic, holy, illustrations, makoyed, paul, steps, vadim
1. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.
Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.
2. Put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you.
Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming. You used to do these things when your life was still part of this world. But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language. Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. More
We Fight For My Destiny!
20 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
in Inspired By God Tags: bible, destiny, illustration, inspiration, makoyed, vadim, vadimages
We Fight For My Destiny
This illustration was inspired by a really old cartoon about Jesus I so happened to watch about three years ago and after usual reading of my favorite bible.
This illustration is based on a verse from bible Luke 22: 42 “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”
In this illustration I showed what a lot of times happens inside our human souls. I found that there are two persons in me. And this is the paradox sometimes we find ourselves in.
A lot of times the things we want to do, we don’t do and the things we don’t want to do, we still do them. I found that this is because of these two persons in me. They resist each other. I feel their desperate willingness to take over me, but it is up to me to decide who will win. They are good and evil or spirit and flesh. They fight for my life, for my future, for my destiny. Good wants to save me and evil wants to have me for its own purposes; to steal, kill, and destroy. It is much easier to be evil then to overcome it with goodness.
But I don’t want an easy life because it is boring. I don’t want to be like everyone else who took this rode. I don’t want to go by the flow with a crowd. I want to be someone else, maybe misunderstood but right, maybe misjudged but righteous, maybe looser but strong winner inside of me. Because the one who can control his thoughts, anger, flesh, he is greater then warrior who concurred many countries. I rather do what’s right, even if that’ll be impossible for me to do. I rather do what’s hard but right then easy yet wicked.
This is something Jesus went through in the garden before intentionally giving Himself up for torture. In prayers He was saying that He doesn’t want to drink His cup, yet He understood that He has to, He has to do the thing He doesn’t want to do. Jesus knew that the last hours if His life would be horrible beyond imagination. He was humble and went against His flesh and what evil tried to dictate. Jesus drank His cup.
Cup represents destiny, our path of life. We all have our own cup to drink from. Only strong ones win and only courageous ones are bold enough to dare to drink from their cup. It might be bitter and detestable, but after all it will be like honey on your lips. Yet some people refuse to take the path that was created for them trying to live an easy life, but at the end they perish. This is why it is always better to look at a finish line when we start our run, see further then a first turn. This helps us to make right decisions that will get us to the finish without bad surprises.
Life is just a pregame of a real game in heaven. It is some 80 years vs. eternity. Therefore I have decided to drink from my cup, drink it all. Loose my soul, so I can gain it back in Christ, because if I’ll try to save it here, I will loose it.
And so these are my thoughts behind this picture that I’ve seen in my head three years ago. This is my self portrait, self portrait of who I am on the inside, of what is going on in me.
Songs of Solomon
01 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
in Inspired By God Tags: bible, days, drawing, illustration, last, picture, revelation, solomon, songs
This is the image I saw in my head after reading the Book of Songs of Solomon.
Book of Songs of Solomon 2:2
Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.
The lily is the church, and the thorns is the sinful world. We are the church of Jesus, His bride.
Sometimes I see images in my head. Most of them no matter how I try, I just cannot put it out on paper. But with this one It actually turned out at least 80% the way I saw it in my mind.
This illustration was inspired after reading songs of Solomon in my bible (2nd chapter, 2nd verse)
It is written there, “Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.” And after seeing this image in my mind, I took my sketchbook and redrew it with my hand.
Then I scanned it, on a cheap college scanner… anyways… then took it to photoshop where I put colors to it.
I love this illustration because it has a meaning, at least to me. I love designs or photography, or even music that makes me think. This particular image reminds me of the last days as I’ve seen it in my “memories from the future” When the world is going to get darker, as it is written in the bible, church will shine brighter and brighter. It will become clean, holly, innocent bride of Jesus.
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