God has spoken. He has spoken through prophets who were uniquely called to write down what God revealed to them. Their writings have been preserved in the collection of books we call ‘the Bible’. God’s greatest act of communication, however, was through Jesus Christ. Jesus was not just another messenger like the prophets. And he was even more than an angelic messenger. John refers to Jesus as ‘the Word’. He is, in other words, the perfect expression of who God is, and his life and teachings are the perfect example of what God wants. The writer of Hebrews wanted to underscore the superiority of Jesus. He refers to Jesus as “the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being”. Jesus not only came to us in the past, he is still with us. Jesus is present with us and even in us by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is ‘Christ in us’ (Colossians 1:27), so he is referred to in the New Testament as the Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9; 1 Peter 1:11). This means that Jesus is still present and is still revealing God to us. You cannot know God just by reading the Bible. You need the illumination of the Holy Spirit. You need the Holy Spirit to help you understand the truth. The only way to understand truth is to embody truth, that is, to become true. It is only as the Holy Spirit shapes you in conformity with God’s will that you become truly human. To be the truth is the only way to know the truth, just as loving someone is the only way to know what love is.
Ask God to teach you, lead you and shape you.
Read Hebrews 1
