Jesus and His word.

I’m continuing to meditate on Hebrews Chapter one where it describes the Son of God. It says, He upholds all things by the word of His power.

So this makes me think about the dimensions, the immensity of the power of God. All things… Jesus upholds or ‘holds together’ all things. He sustains all things, just by his powerful word.

In Genesis it says that God spoke and the universe was created. Something was created out of nothing. Only God could do this, but this reveals that Jesus the Christ – very God of very God was the catalyst for creation and continues eternally to hold the universe together.

If God speaks a creative word, nothing can stop it. His ‘word’ will not return void, one of the prophets says, but will accomplish what He sent it to do. Therefore when God sends or speaks a word, it is always with a purpose to be accomplished.

Personally, He holds my life together by His word. By His word He sustains me. Therefore His word is precious to me. It is my source of life, and my spiritual food. My spirit is strong because of this living ‘manna’ that the Lord feeds me daily. He provides but I must gather.

Lord, first let me remember your amazing limitless power. Let me know and believe in it. Secondly, cause me to feed on and trust in and proclaim your amazing truth, the Word of God!

Hebrews meditations: Jesus the express image of the Father

   As I've been chewing on the book of Hebrews I have been falling in love with Jesus again and again. How amazing that it says Jesus is the express image of God's person. How did Jesus say it to Philip? "If you've seen me you've seen the Father." What an amazing Truth! The more we learn of Him and the more we know Him, the more we know our God and Creator.
   So,as Jesus responded to people, that's how the Father would respond. As Jesus was angered by evil, so the Father is angered by sin, injustice and evil deeds; as Jesus wept, so the Father weeps at the condition of mankind and the damage sin has wreaked upon them.
   What does this mean to us? It means that the more we grow in our relationship with Jesus the Christ, the more we learn of the nature of the Father. We learn of Jesus through His words; by His Spirit, through the life experiences we have, whether good or bad, hard or easy, --all of them reveal something new about our Lord and Savior Jesus and therefore our Father and God.
   James 4:8 says if we draw near to God, He will draw near to us. I can think of four things that help me draw close to Him. First, as we go through trials and trouble, we cry out to God and in the midst of the heart-ache we discover he is with us. And we begin to see Him in ways we cannot otherwise. We can't know him as the 'Help in time of present need" if we don't have "present need." Secondly, as we spend time hanging out with Jesus in prayer. When crying, laughing, talking, yelling or otherwise  expressing ourselves, we find he delights in it all. He loves to hear us and is very patient! As we read His word we begin to have a framework to think about what is true about God our Father. His word is all true, we just need the Holy Spirit to illuminate it. When this happens, we are changed and we see the Lord, high and lifted up. Finally, I have been on a rediscovery time with the Holy Spirit. So as I do all these things with a heart of worship and adoration the Spirit is opening my eyes to the wonder of God and the amazingness of His person.
   Is it possible to fall in love again and again? He is certainly becoming more wonderful to me.
To know Him is eternal life Jesus said, and to experience Him is joy and real life itself!
   Lord, give me a holy hunger to seek and pursue you today. O, I long to know you more and better, and to realize that the better I know you, the better I will know my Father and God.