The Glory of God………Jesus
Can we fathom the depths of God? Can we begin to understand the complete love he has for each of us? Can we ever grasp what is the Glory of God? If we can somehow, in a moment of faith and vast imagination, picture the entire universe with its countless stars, planets, galaxies, and constellations in an endless outer space, then we might think we’ve caught a glimpse of the smallest fraction of the Glory of God. But not really.
In all it’s vastness, the created universe is not the evidence or image of God’s glory. It absolutely, and most definitely speaks of His unspeakable power and majesty, but not His glory.
God created the heavens and the earth in six days, and he rested from his work on the seventh day. And when he had finished his work he observed it and said it was good. But his creation was never the focal point of his glory; that place was reserved for only One……..Jesus.
Hebrews speaks of the superiority of Jesus over the angels and prophets. The author says that Jesus is the appointed heir of all things; He is the One through whom God made all things. And in these last days, God is speaking to us ONLY through His Son.
I love verse three of Hebrews chapter one. It proclaims that Jesus is the brightness of God’s glory, and that Jesus is the express image of God, and that he upholds all things by the word of His power, and that He by Himself purged our sins, and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
It’s no wonder that when the Bible says that we’ve all fallen short of the Glory of God, that it hits home with much authority and conviction. God established the Law in the OT as a guideline for right living for the children of Israel. When He sent Jesus, the fullness of the law was in him, yet he spoke of a new way to the Father; through believing in the Son alone, by the grace of God, through faith. Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law, not destroy it.
God could depend on Jesus to carry out His will because they were One. Jesus was with God in the beginning, and through Him (Jesus) all things were made (read John 1 here). The relationship of the Father and the Son is unfathomable to our human mind because it is an eternal bond. Yet it is available to us because of the faithfulness of Jesus to carry out the Father’s plan of salvation.
Jesus is the radiance of God’s Glory (NKJV says brightness). No other person or thing has God glorified like the Son. He sits at the right hand of God making intercession for you and me today. Jesus was obedient to the Fathers’ will to come to earth as a man; live as a servant; and die a criminal’s death. He did it all so that we may be with him forever. I’m really thankful!
Brian
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