Bible Verse of the Day Monday March 11th, 2024

Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

Glory is a word we use occasionally but find it challenging to explain. The dictionary defines praise, honor, admiration, or distinction accorded by common consent to a person or thing: high reputation, honorable fame, renown, and magnificence. God is fundamentally different from us, so there is a barrier to our communication with Him. In the Old Testament, He revealed a certain amount of himself through the writings of the prophets and nature. However, this revelation was always incomplete, giving us just a glimpse into His nature.

The wonder is that God became man in the person of Christ Jesus to communicate with us properly. In Christ, we can relate to Him in a physical form, as He has faced the same difficulties and temptations of life. Hebrews has much to say about Christ's humanity, but for now, it concentrates on His deity to give us a glimpse of the dignity and exalted rank of the Son of God. We need to see Christ as He is so that His glory fills us with wonder, thrills our souls, and motivates us to worship and serve.

This scripture verse tells us that Jesus is the radiance of God's Glory and represents his being. God's essence is so immense that His brightness astounds our imagination of his actual being. Without Christ, there is no light but only darkness because God is the only true light that behooves us all to illumination. In its completeness, this verse of scripture and the Word of God teaches us that we can only know God in and through Jesus. Our Lord and Savior is not a blurry or indistinguishable image, but God's accurate representation, as money, is the impression of the die with which stamped the bill. 

However, Jesus is more than just an image; He is the expressed persona of His person. He not only communicates what the Father is like, but He is of the same substance. In the language of Philippians 2:6, He shares the form of God. The Greek word translated from morphed means essence. This explanation means that Christ shares the very nature or essence of deity. He possessed the fullness of the attributes that make God. While he was on earth, as Paul put it in Colossians 2:9, for in Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form. Christ is and has always been God.