Who
being the brightness
of His glory and
the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word
of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the
right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews
1:3
How do you go about describing color
to a blind man? Words just can’t do it and the sense of touch is wholly
inadequate to relate what it is like. The only means to communicate this
knowledge would be to give the gift of sight, without which all theory about
light is meaningless.
How do you go about describing an
infinite God to a finite mind? A person born in a three dimensional world
cannot begin to comprehend a Supreme Being made up of neither atoms nor energy
but capable of creating both. God and His glory are totally incomprehensible
for humankind unless He chooses to reveal Himself to them.
In ancient times, God used the vehicle
of light to communicate His presence. Created on the first day, light is not
the essence of God but it is somehow always intricately associated with Him. A
pillar of light guided the Israelites through the wilderness, the Shekinah
glory shown over the Ark of the Covenant, and Mount Sinai flashed with God’s
holy fire. However, no matter how intense light may appear, it is only the
shadow of what His true glory is really like.
Christ is effluence of divine radiance
and the gift of sight by which the creature can finally see his Creator. In Him
there is no darkness at all.
The unconverted eye will never see God
because the spiritually lost are totally blind. But for those who are saved by
grace, those who are given eyes of faith to see, the focus will forever be on
the Lord, who is the Brightness of God’s
Glory.
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