Revealing The Father

“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power.” - Hebrews 1:3

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All the discoveries that God ever made of Himself to the world are made in and by Jesus Christ. The Father is known in the Son. The sun in the firmament makes itself visible by its own light; so Christ, the Sun of righteousness, reveals the glory of God by His own beams. Never was there a clearer revelation of the nature of God than in this matchless and admirable work of the incarnation. Here is the express image of His person. Look upon Christ, and you see the Father. Would you have the knowledge of the wisdom of God? Behold it in Christ, “in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Would you know the power of God? Behold it in Christ, who is the arm of the Lord. Would you know the love and mercy of God? Behold them in Christ, whose incarnation and death express them beyond all conception.

The incarnation is the glass in which we may behold the love of God to sinners. Christ is God descending in the apparel of our nature, that He might be familiarly known. God dwells in such inaccessible light that no man can approach Him, but now He draws near to us in the human nature of Christ. The infinite distance that lay between God and us is filled up in the person of the Mediator. The Son of God stooped to become the Son of man that strangers might become children. He bowed the heavens and came down, not in a terrible display of majesty but in the weakness of our flesh, that we might be won by love.

O what a wonder is this, that God should become man to make man fit for God. That He should take our nature that we might partake of the divine nature. That He should be made like us that we might be made like Him. This is the mystery of godliness, worthy of all admiration and praise for evermore.

(Taken From John Flavel's sermon "The Incarnation of the Son of God")